In a new economic geography framework with input-output linkages, this study analyses decisions made by foreign firms about their location within Hungary. A rich dataset of corporate tax returns of Hungarian firms between 1992 and 2002 as well as annual labor surveys are used to get location, sales and wage data.
The major objective of the study is to complement the findings of the studies on industrial agglomeration in Turkey’s manufacturing industry by exploring whether specialization and concentration patterns have changed over time and to expose the driving forces of geographic concentration in Turkey’s manufacturing industry, particularly during Turkey’s economic integration process with the European Union under the customs union established in 1996.
According to the report, the manufacturing sector in Indiana accounts for 68 percent of the jobs in the state and provides about 37 percent of all state and local taxes. The Indiana Manufacutures Association hopes the new data will lead to new policies that promote manufacturing investment in the state.
This paper examines the interaction between services and manufacturing using several types of data and shows that the distinction between manufacturing and services is blurring. Services make important contributions to production, mainly through their direct contribution to total output and final demand, but to some degree also through their indirect contribution via other industries.
This paper uses data on the manufacturing sector, for the period 1966-2002 and estimates a CES production function in which military spending is assumed to effect growth through its impact on trend technological change.
According to the authors, the standard quadratic price adjustment cost function makes no allowance for firm
size or for scale economies. Incorporating quadratic price adjustment costs into the profit function, a firm’s speed of price adjustment is both shown to be a
positive/negative function of its size when firms have scale economies/diseconomies with regard to these costs and to be a negative function of market power.
This report profiles major changes in national manufacturing in recent years. This report also looks at Iowa and its bordering states in order to discern just how the state has fared compared to the U.S. and its neighbors. In addition, comparisons are made of Iowas manufacturing job performance in relation to the average for all states that border Iowa.
This paper studies whether intra-developing country price competition has significant effects on the growth rates of developing countries that are specialized in manufactured exports. Results vary across different panels of countries and between the first and second halves of the sample period.
This paper examines head office employment in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It focuses on the characteristics that are related to the creation of a head office and the amount of employment in that head office. Among the characteristics investigated are firm size, number of plants, industrial diversity, geographical location, industry and nationality.
This paper uses firm-level data from the T2/LEAP to investigate whether the link between tariff changes and employment differed across firms with various productivity and leverage characteristics over the period 1988 to 1994. The results suggest that the combined effect of domestic and U.S. tariff reductions on employment was typically small, but that losses were significantly larger for firms which were less productive.