The Economic Consequences of Investing in Shipbuilding: Case Studies in the United States and Sweden

doi:10.7249/RR1036

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DOI	10.7249/RR1036
报告编号	RR-1036-AUS
	The Economic Consequences of Investing in Shipbuilding: Case Studies in the United States and Sweden
	Edward G. Keating; Irina Danescu; Dan Jenkins; James Black; Robert Murphy; Deborah Peetz; Sarah H. Bana
	2015
出版年	2015
页数	86
语种	英语
国家	美国
出版者	RAND Corporation
领域	资源环境
英文摘要	The Economic Consequences of Investing in Shipbuilding: Case Studies in the United States and Sweden assesses the economic consequences of shipbuilding — that is, the economic impacts that a shipbuilder has on its local community and region. This report is part of a larger project to inform Australian policymakers of the economics and feasibility of various strategies for the Australian shipbuilding industrial bases that produce or repair naval surface vessels. The authors utilize a case study methodology to examine Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia, and Austal USA shipbuilding in Mobile, Alabama. They complement and contrast analysis of these shipbuilders by examining the impact of the Saab Aeronautics Gripen program on Linkoping, Sweden. Both shipbuilders have had favorable effects on their local economies. Neither shipbuilder shows evidence of sizable adverse displacement effects; the shipbuilders appear not to have deprived other local firms of labor. On the other hand, neither shipbuilder has given rise to the Silicon Valley–type ecosystem of favorable spillovers and spin-offs that appears to have emanated from the Gripen program. The research therefore stakes out a middle-ground position in the Australian policy debate. The authors accept neither a "shipbuilding has no impact" argument nor a "shipbuilding will have large-scale beneficial effects" argument. The indigenous production of ships in Australia cannot be expected to have both low opportunity costs and displacements and high levels of favorable spillovers. Instead, these two objectives seem to trade off against one another.
英文关键词	Economic Development Military Ships and Naval Vessels United States Australia Labor Markets Sweden
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/4251
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Edward G. Keating,Irina Danescu,Dan Jenkins,et al. The Economic Consequences of Investing in Shipbuilding: Case Studies in the United States and Sweden:RAND Corporation,2015.