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Modeling Structural Change in the U.S. Textile Industry book cover

1st Edition

Modeling Structural Change in the U.S. Textile Industry

By Shu Yang, Barry K. Goodwin Copyright 2000
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge
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This book reviews the experience of the textile and apparel sectors over the post-war period. An econometric study of the cost structure of the industry is undertaken to obtain inferences regarding the existence of structural change and the exact nature of any changes that occurred. A variety of approaches to modeling production technologies in both the textile and apparel sectors are considered.... Read more

Preface Acknowledgments List of Tables

List of Figures

　

　

　

　

　

CHAPTER 1. Introduction

CHAPTER 2. Background

    1. Evolution of the MFA

    2. Summary Statistics

    3. Objectives

CHAPTER 3. U.S. Textile Mill Sector

    1. Structural Change and Factor Demand

      2. Relationships in the U.S. Textile Mill Sector

    2. Structural Change and Autocorrelation

    3. Short-run Capital Quasifixity:A Generalized

      4. Leontief Cost Approach

    4. Technical Change and Scale Effects in the

      5. U.S. Textile Mill Sector

    5. Demand Elasticities for Individual Fibers

Notes

CHAPTER 4. U.S. Apparel Sector

    1. Structural Change in Factor Demand Relationships in the U.S. Apparel Sector

    2. Modeling the U.S. Import Demand for Textiles and Apparel Products

CHAPTER 5. Explicit Modeling of Structural Change Notes

　

CHAPTER 6. Conclusions

Summary

Bibliography Index

Biography

Shu Yang

Barry K. Goodwin

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