State Factor Endowments and Exports: An Alternative to Cross-Industry Studies

Coughlin, Cletus C.; Fabel, Oliver

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“…The domestic investment variable, lnCAPIiVVt.l, is included in the model in order to separate the export effects of FDI from the export effects of investment in general. Studies of the determinants of state export performance have found that domestic investment is a significant predictor of export performance (Coughlin and Fabel, 1988;Erickson and Hayward, 1992). Other researchers have also suggested that patterns of FDI in the U.S. may be significantly related to the overall patterns of domestic investment (Mcconnell, 1980;O'hUallachain, 1985).…”

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Foreign Direct Investment and State Export Performance

Leichenko

Erickson

1997

Journal of Regional Science

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Since the early 1980s, there has been widespread debate over the impacts of rising levels of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on the U.S. economy. A frequently noted, but little studied, issue within the debate is the impact of FDI on U.S. foreign trade, and particularly, on the foreign trade of U S . regions. This study assesses the effects of FDI on the manufacturing export performance of U.S. states during the period from 1980 to 1991. Results indicate that increased levels of FDI are positively related to future improvements in state manufacturing export performance.

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Foreign Direct Investment and State Export Performance

Leichenko

Erickson

1997

Journal of Regional Science

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“…H-O theory has been widely tested at the international level through cross-industry studies for a single country (e.g., Leontief 1953) and through cross-country studies of an individual industry or set of industries (e.g., Baldwin 1979). H-O theory has also been applied to U.S. regions in order to evaluate the determinants of export production (e.g., Coughlin and Fabel 1988;Erickson and Hayward 1992). These studies have found that differences in state endowments are significant determinants of state export levels but that these factors explain only a limited portion of the variation in export performance among states.…”

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Exports, Employment, and Production: A Causal Assessment of U.S. States and Regions

Leichenko¹

2000

Economic Geography

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Clark University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Economic Geography.Abstract: Rising foreign exports are generally perceived to be a driving force behind U.S. regional economic growth. Yet relatively little empirical attention has been paid to the question of causality between foreign exports and economic growth at the regional level. The belief that exports are an engine of economic growth stems from traditional export base theory. This theory indicates that multiplier effects and externalities associated with export expansion are key sources for regional economic growth. While the notion of an export base is often accepted tacitly by regional development researchers, economic theory actually suggests a number of different interpretations of the causal relationship between exports and growth. Heckscher-Ohlin factor endowment theory postulates, for example, that growth of exports is driven by regional labor and capital supplies. Alternatively, new international trade theory suggests that there is a bidirectional relationship between exports and regional economic growth. Exports are thought to enhance regional growth through promotion of economies of scale in production, but local economic conditions, including strong product demand and agglomeration (external) economies, are also thought to promote the growth of exports. In this study, I investigate the causal relationship between international manufacturing exports and manufacturing employment, productivity, and output across the states and in major multistate regions. Results offer general support for bidirectional causality between exports and state economic growth but also indicate some important variations among the different regions of the country.

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“…Some studies (such as Coughlin and Fable, 1985;Coughlin and Cartwright, 1987a;Erickson, 1989;1992) explain export performance at subnational levels using variations of the traditional Heckscher-*The authors would like to thank an anonymous referee for helpful comments. The views expressed herein are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City or the Federal Reserve System.…”

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Do Exchange Rates and Foreign Incomes Matter for Exports at the State Level?

Cronovich

Gazel

1998

Journal of Regional Science

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At the national level, trade-weighted real exchange rates and foreign incomes significantly impact exports. At the subnational level, these variables are generally insignificant in the few studies that include them. We argue that the standard use of national trade weights in the construction of subnational trade-weighted averages of exchange rates and foreign incomes is inappropriate, and we then construct these variables using state-specific trade weights. In our panel data analysis of state-level manufacturing exports, these variables enter significantly and with the expected signs. Also, their out-of-sample forecasting ability is significantly better than that of the national tradeweighted variables.

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State Factor Endowments and Exports: An Alternative to Cross-Industry Studies

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Foreign Direct Investment and State Export Performance

Foreign Direct Investment and State Export Performance

Exports, Employment, and Production: A Causal Assessment of U.S. States and Regions

Do Exchange Rates and Foreign Incomes Matter for Exports at the State Level?

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