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An Econometric Look at Inefficiency Among U.S. States, 1977-1986

The Review of Regional Studies

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Title An Econometric Look at Inefficiency Among U.S. States, 1977-1986
 
Creator Brock, Gregory
 
Description U.S. states during the 1977-1986 business cycle are found to have small but significant technical inefficiency in the private sector.Inefficiency is influenced by several factors, including prior economic performance, location, Hicks labor augmenting technical progress in the manufacturing sector in an earlier 1970s period, college graduation, and income inequality. The existence of a monetary channel, urban agglomeration, and a high school diploma "sheepskin" effect for improved technical efficiency are rejected. Results from earlier studies using noneconometric methods to measure technical efficiency areindependently confirmed, indicating that interstate technical inefficiency exists and can be measured using both parametric and nonparametric methods, but may overestimate how different states are from each other.
 
Publisher Southern Regional Science Association
 
Date 2001-06-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/31.1.6
 
Source The Review of Regional Studies; Vol 31, No 1 (2001); 95-107
0048-749X
1553-0892
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/31.1.6/282