manufacturing

The paper examines the extent to which borrowing constraints restrict firm access to credit and identifies individual, firm, and loan characteristics, which determine the cost of capital in Vietnamese manufacturing.

The paper deals with the central issue, does manufacturing still matter for Latin America’s development? The author argues that even though there are other options that should be exploited, the region cannot afford to completely turn its back to a well-proven road to development.

The paper examines research and development (R&D) spillovers at the international level, looking at such spillovers from Japan to Korea. Empirical findings show that the contribution of inter-industry R&D spillovers in the Korean manufacturing sector is low and insignificant, while Korean manufacturing industry benefits greatly from rent R&D spillovers from Japanese manufacturing industry.

According to the author, a quantitative critique of 28 studies concludes that formal planning is valuable for firms. The results of the study were particularly favorable for manufacturing firms: nine studies found formal planning to be associated with better performance and none found detrimental performance.

The paper presents a general view of economic development in the countries of Magreb, analyzing the impact of manufacturing and imports on economic growth and cycles. The analysis shows that these countries have low levels of trade among them and that they could improve their economic development with more industrial production and trade, both among themselves and with other areas as the Mediterranean countries of European Union.

The paper investigates structural change among the four-digit industries of the U.S. manufacturing sector during 1958-1996 within a distribution dynamics framework. Focus is on the transition density of the Markov process that characterizes the value added shares of the
industries.

The report is the most recent installment of Deloittes Global Manufacturing Supply Chain Benchmarking research. The latest findings, based on research gathered from nearly 650 leading manufacturers worldwide, reveal that manufacturers cite launching new products and services as the number one driver of revenue growth, yet also view supporting product innovation as one of the least important priorities.

The paper examines how import competition from different origins and the presence of product differentiation affect market power of Swedish manufacturing firms during the 1990s. The general finding is that imports from both European countries and other high income countries outside Europe impose disciplinary effects on price-cost margin of Swedish manufacturing firms.

The paper analyses relative manufacturing
concentration patterns in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay over the period 1985-1998. The econometric evidence indicates that localization of demand and comparative advantages are the main driving forces of these patterns. The establishment of Mercosur seems to have played a role in the spatial distribution of manufacturing in the above three countries.

The authors examine the relationship between knowledge spillovers and both technological and geographical proximities using micro panel data of Indonesian manufacturing plants between 1990 and 1995. They find both physical and technological proximity are significant.