Manufacturing in United States Metropolitan Areas: Estimation of the Profit Function and Policy Simulations

This study is concerned with the estimation of the manufacturing sector's profit function in metropolitan areas. It uses a more comprehensive data set than used previously. Further, several factors which have not been explicitly included before in related works are considered, such as city size, size of the manufacturing sector, construction of an output price index, index for quality of capital, and stability of coefficients over time. Finally, the welfare effects of various government policies are calculated.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Agricultural Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Panggabean, Martin Partahi Hasoloan

Contributors dc:contributor

• Crihfield, John B.,

• Economics, General
• Economics, Agricultural

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9411744

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72179