This paper presents a model to estimate the rate of capacity utilization (CU) in the manufacturing sector by state. Consistent measures of state-level CU rates have been unavailable since 1982. The ...

Capacity utilization rate: refers to the ratio of actual output to production capacity (both measured by value). The actual output of the enterprise refers to the total industrial output value of the ...

Researchers from the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture and Mississippi State University teamed up to investigate the interaction of national slaughter and price spread — the difference ...