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Energy Prices, Factor Reallocation, and Regional Growth

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  • Huntington, Hillard
  • Smith, Donald Mitchell

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The governors of northeastern states have recently cited the disparity in energy costs as contributing to the adverse economic condition in the Northeast. This paper develops an economic methodology to explain how energy prices could affect profits and wages in a state. The changes in profits and wages affect the growth of capital and employment, which in turn affect the growth of output. Applied to the 1963 to 1972 period, tests of this model support the hypothesis that energy prices do affect regional growth. In order to ascertain the importance of energy prices as a determinate of regional growth rates, simulations are run on the model under a hypothetical scenario which assumes that energy price differentials among states are eliminated. This simulation shows that the economic growth of states would be increased substantially where energy prices are currently high, and vice versa. Tables are presented to show for each state the annual growth of capital, labor, and manufacturing output with the energy prices as actually existed. Changes in these growth rates due to hypothetical changes in energy prices, are also shown.

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  • Huntington, Hillard & Smith, Donald Mitchell, 1977. "Energy Prices, Factor Reallocation, and Regional Growth," MPRA Paper 69066, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Smith, Donald Mitchell, 1974. "Regional Growth: Interstate and Intersectoral Factor Reallocations," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 56(3), pages 353-359, August.
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    1. Loren M. Solnick, 1980. "The Employment Impact of Changing Energy Prices," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 6(2), pages 87-98, April.

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    Keywords

    Regional Growth; Capital Mobility; Labor Mobility; Energy Prices;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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