Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER)

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The Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) is a 50+-year-old research entity of UMD’s Labovitz School of Business and Economics. The BBER:

Collects, analyzes, and disseminates information regarding the economy of Duluth, Northeast Minnesota, the State of Minnesota, Northwest Wisconsin and beyond for public and private regional, state, and federal constituencies
Provides specific research to identify economic problems and opportunities
Acts as a catalyst to generate research from faculty, staff, and students within LSBE
Provides students with hands-on, real-world skills of conducting economic and business research and working directly with businesses
Provides unbiased data and analysis concerning the economic viability of building, expanding, relocating, downsizing, and/or eliminating businesses, especially industry-specific businesses, such as forestry, mining, and energy.
Contributes to strategic thinking about research data (forecasting, communicating, responding, developing)

The BBER is funded by a special appropriation of the Minnesota Legislature, private contracts, and research grants.

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The 1980-81 Impact of UMD on the Duluth-Superior Growth Center Region
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1981) Lichty, Richard W; Jesswein, Wayne A
Accounting in the People's Republic of China
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1996) Li, June F
With the enormous economic growth after the Cultural Revolution in 1976, China recognizes the need to modernize its accounting system. This paper explores the accounting environment in China both prior to and after the start of the economic reforms; as well as identifies the significant differences between the accounting standards in China and those in the U.S. While it is likely that the accounting system in China will be one that is functional in this global economy; the system will be one that is unique to China.
Adaptive Selling, Buyer-Seller Similarity and Intermediate Sales Goals: A Causal Path Analysis
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1988) Dion, Paul A
This paper reports the results of a causal path analysis of a partial model of salesperson performance. The results were obtained by measuring both buyer and seller views of shared trade relationships. Adaptive selling was shown not to be a major influence on performance although it had some effect when mediated by salesperson resources. The links between performance and intermediate sales goals such as perceived similarity, expertise, trust and liking of the seller were significant. Perceived similarity of the seller was shown to be effective only when working through trust and liking. Lastly, buyer-seller similarity in weight, but not height, was strongly linked to sales performance.
After the Election: Some Financial Speculation for the 1990s
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1988-10) Peterson, Jerrold M
Alcoholism in Discipline: A Dilemma in Arbitration
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1979) Boyer, John W., Jr
Alternative Approaches to Thinking about Economic Development
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1996) Lichty, Richard W; Maki, Wilbur R
Much of past thinking about economic development started with a traditional low-income rural agricultural economy losing its workforce to higher-paying jobs in the new, modern industrial sector. Hirschman and others proposed an alternative strategy for economic development in his unbalanced growth theory that focused on an industry rather than an entire sector or two of a developing nation's economy. Hirschman not only highlighted, but emphasized in significant ways, the role and importance of the private sector in economic development. Putnam and others take the social capital approach to economic development. We offer still another way of thinking about economic development strategy that builds on the activities within a local labor market area and its institutions for constructively engaging an active, public-spirited local citizenry. The local labor market approach contrasts with the earlier ways of thinking about economic development by its attention to local institutions in building a civic workforce. This functional community serves as a building block for defining an economic region composed of several labor market areas, of which one or more form its core area, while the more distant ones form its periphery. This approach provides the conceptual environment for building a model for local economic development.
Alternative Views of the Buyer-Seller Interaction Process: The Sales and Trader Models
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1986) Dion, Paul A; Mitchell, Ted J
An Efficiency Analysis of Minnesota Counties: A Data Envelopment Analysis Using 1993 IMPLAN Input-output Analysis
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1996-12) Raab, Raymond L; Lichty, Richard W
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a multi-input, multi-output optimization model used to measure relative efficiency or the best practice counties. The IMPLAN input-output 1993 database and software estimates gross output, final demand, and final payments categories at the county level. The IMP LAN data contains estimates of four forms of final payments. Transfer payments are added as inputs but are taken from a separate source. IMPLAN also includes four forms of final demand as outputs. These inputs and outputs form a production frontier of "best practice" counties. Deviations below the frontier will be used to measure the degree of county inefficiencies based upon minimizing the use of inputs and maximizing the sale of outputs. Measurement of relative county efficiencies allow comparison between urban core counties, suburban transitional counties and rural periphery counties. County comparisons of returns to scale verify the existing body of land rent theories. Agglomeration economies measured by DEA efficiency scores and returns to scale measured by DEA frontier intercepts imply that location and urbanization economies are largest in urban core counties and that their effects diminish as distance from the core increases.
An Analysis of Factors Affecting the Levels of Retail Sales in Winnepeg, Ontario, and Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada: A Threshold Analysis
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1987) Dysvick, Ronald H; Lichty, Richard W
The Analysis of Labor Productivity Effects on Regional Growth
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1987) O'Brien, A. Maureen; Lichty, Richard W; Lim, Kai H
An Analysis of Regional Differences in Racial Discrimination in the Home Mortgage Lending Industry
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1992-06) Gesick, Esther Y; Steinnes, Donald N
Analysis of the Economic Impact of Travel on Minnesota Counties for 1983
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1985-01) Wood, Thomas J
Analyzing Housing Demand in Northeast Minnesota and Duluth: Three Scenarios
(University of Minnesota Duluth, 1987) Lichty, Richard W; Flannery, Barbara A
Analyzing Local Industrial Development Potential: The Region's Commercial and Industrial Structure (Report #2)
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1984) Lichty, Richard W; McMillan, David J
This is the second in a series of reports dealing with the economy of Duluth and northeast Minnesota. The first identified the excess and deficit demand conditions for northeast Minnesota as preliminary estimates of the export and import requirements of the economy. This report will analyze the structure of the northeast Minnesota economy and attempt to identify the most important industrial sectors in terms of that structure. Also included in this report is a description of the input/output model used to analyze the economy's structure and copy of the complete, 75 sector input/output system for northeast Minnesota. The latter tables are included as an appendix to this report.
Analyzing Local Industrial Development Potential: The Region's Export/Import Basis (Report #1)
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1984) Lichty, Richard W; McMillan, David J
An Annotated Review of Alternative Work Schedules
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1978-07) Pierce, Jon L; Newstrom, John W; Kuhlmann, Diane O
Antecedents and Outcomes of Organizational Commitment: A Constructive Replication
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1984) Pierce, Jon L; Dunham, Randall B
This study represents a constructive replication of the antecedent/outcomes to organizational commitment model developed by Steers (1977). Personal characteristics, job characteristics, reactions to work experiences, and an interactive model of pre-employment expectations and work environment experiences were significant predictors of organizational commitment. Commitment predicted absenteeism during the first·thr~e months of employment. A more powerful impact of commitment was on behavioral intentions which in turn had a significant association with subsequent turnover behavior.
An Approach towards Simulating Links between Minnesota's Economy and the Supply and Demand for Minnesota's Water
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1987) Lichty, Richard W
Assessing Forest Industry Trends in Northeast Minnesota: The TAM Model
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1988) Lichty, Richard W; Raab, Raymond L
Assessing the Value of Water in Minnesota: Model Characteristics
(Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1986) Garcia, L. Miguel; Dalton, Patricia Q
The purpose of this paper will be to outline the practical considerations involved in estimating the value of water in Minnesota. The paper will include a review of previous modelling efforts, including an analysis of data requirements and data weaknesses inherent in these previous efforts. The form of the input-output and programming efforts in Minnesota study will be outlined. The data to be used in the Minnesota effort will be highlighted, along with a comparison between Minnesota's data sources and those of other studies. Also included will be descriptions of both the structure of a large scale simulation model (IPASS) currently being used in the State of Minnesota and the anticipated structure of the water module to be attached to the IPASS system. Theses descriptions will follow from the theoretical discussion out of the previous paper.