manufacturing

This study analyzes the impact of international trade on the diffusion of flexible manufacturing in a general equilibrium framework.

The authors use mean-variance analysis to demonstrate the importance of a hitherto neglected benefit of enticing MNEs to locate in small and medium-sized countries.

This paper analyses the main changes occurred in the productive structure of Spanish manufacturing industry in the last years, by relating them to variations in economic results observed therein and their realtionships.

This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and plant exit in Chile. The authors investigate three main questions: are affiliates of foreign multinationals more likely to exit than domestic firms? Does the exit probability of multinationals depend on its export orientation?, and Does the presence of multinationals affect the survival of other firms in the economy?

This paper first examines the rapid growth and changing composition of manufactured exports in Indonesia and Thailand, highlighting the rapid growth of office and computer machinery and electric machinery, somewhat slower growth of non-electric and transportation machinery, as well as the low growth of previously large exports of textiles apparel.

This study considers the internationalization efforts of a sample of Lithuanian manufacturing SMEs. Specifically, it is sought to reveal whether any patterns in the foreign market entry decisions of these firms may be found, through an examination of the degree of internationalization and its dependence on company age, size, risk aversion, commitment toward internationalization and knowledge acquisition.

External demand for manufactured products is of four types: demand for investment goods, demand for consumer goods, demand for intermediate goods
for other sectors, and export demand. This paper represents these four types of demand.

The purpose of this paper is to test the general validity of the NKPC previsions for the Italian manufacturing industries. In particular, estimating the extent to which the degree of nominal inertia and the fraction of backward-looking price-setters differ from industry to industry.

This paper extends existing research to take account of enterprise ownership and export market destination. It explores these issues using micro data on Irish manufacturing between 1991 and 1998, a time period during which Ireland experienced rapid export-driven growth.

The author conducted regional benchmarking studies on business practices in manufacturing plants within three regions of Sweden. The studies showed inter alia that the gap in performance between leaders and laggers is particularly wide in nformation & benchmarking and Innovation & technology.