State export data: Origin of movement vs. origin of production

Cassey, Andrew J.

doi:10.3233/jem-2009-0323

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“…Cassey () finds the OM data is of good enough quality to use for origin of production of state exports at the state level with possible consolidation problems affecting Florida and Texas. With this in mind, these two states are dropped and the logit regression repeated.…”

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“…In addition I use the Origin of Movement panel data on state manufacturing exports from the World Institute for Strategic Economics Research (WISER, various years) documented in Cassey (). The unique feature of these export data is the destination country of state exports is known.…”

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“…Another advantage of using overseas offices is that they are a relatively stable and long‐lived form of public investment compared with transient and ephemeral measures such as trade missions or shows. For exports, I use the unique Origin of Movement (OM) export data set described and tested in Cassey (). The OM data are state manufacturing exports to each country in the world for the years 1999–2005.…”

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The Location of US States' Overseas Offices

Cassey

2013

Rev International Economics

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Forty US states operated an overseas office in 2002. Treating overseas offices as sales offices, the model assumes offices facilitate exports by reducing the transaction cost of selling abroad. From theory, states operate an office if aggregate savings outweigh operating costs. Exploiting the differences in where states locate offices in the data, and controlling for aggregate characteristics, the paper estimates the impact of exports on the probability of an office existing. In addition, the average state savings from an office is 0.04–0.10% of exports, with a cut‐off threshold of US$850 million.

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Cassey

2013

Rev International Economics

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“…Firms created by low skilled workers have higher fixed costs f h than firms with high skilled workers who bear a lower fixed cost f l . 17 The variable cost β is 15 The two terms are equivalently used in prior literature. Krugman (1991) and Robert-Nicoud (2005) speak of regional migration of workers.…”

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Spatial distribution of skills and regional trade integration

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Dienesch

2015

Ann Reg Sci

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This study is a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of regional trade integration on the spatial distribution of skills. We first develop a theoretical model in the economic geography field to integrate heterogeneous workers, housing, local entrepreneurs and skill upgrading by unskilled workers. We then analyse how the domestic integration of each state in the U.S., approximated by truck registrations, influenced the location choice of skilled and unskilled workers in 1940-1960. By using inter-and intrastate trade flow from the U.S. Commodity Flow Survey, we also analyse the impact of regional trade costs for the contemporary period (1997, 2002, 2007). The theoretical model shows that the bell-shaped curve of spatial development displays a sorting of individuals and firms. Only high-skilled workers increasingly choose the core region during the process of regional integration while intermediate-skilled workers move to the periphery due to the increase in the price of housing. By impacting differently on the opportunity cost to invest in skill acquisition in the core and the periphery, this sorting influences the regional creation of human capital. First a regional divergence in education investment occurs, and then a convergence, but only for high level regional integration. The empirical analysis confirms that regional trade integration has been a determinant of the spatial distribution of skills in the United States.

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“…They find a positive correlation, but they do not control for state or country features. Cassey (2009) adapts a sales office location model to estimate how state exports to a particular country affect the probability a state would choose to facilitate that relationship with an overseas office. He estimates the value of exports an office would have to generate to be profitable.…”

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California's Exports and the 2004 Overseas Office Closures

Cassey¹

2010

Economic Inquiry

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Estimating the impact of state import promotion programs on exports is difficult because of a simultaneity program. The 2003 California budget crisis provides a natural experiment allowing for an unbiased estimate. Due to the crisis, California closed all 12 overseas offices on 1 January 2004. Applying the differences‐in‐differences estimator to a sample of 44 countries over eight years yields an estimated 2%–3% increase in exports if the offices remained open. But this estimate is not statistically significant. Therefore, I find no statistical evidence that California's overseas offices increased exports. (JEL F13, H76, O24)

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State export data: Origin of movement vs. origin of production

Cited by 31 publications

References 10 publications

The Location of US States' Overseas Offices

The Location of US States' Overseas Offices

Spatial distribution of skills and regional trade integration

California's Exports and the 2004 Overseas Office Closures

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