manufacturing

The authors analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies.

The paper investigates the tendencies of co-location between producer services and manufacturing across Swedish functional regions. Empirical results suggest that the location manufacturing
employment can be explained by its accessibility to producer services.

The paper investigates the determinants of entry and exit in the Austrian manufacturing sector based on 1981 to 1994 data. Empirical analysis shows that entry and exit rates are driven by the same determinants. The impacts of these determinants are nearly homogeneous for both, entry rates and exits rates, respectively.

Using panel and cross-reaction data on Moroccan manufacturers, the authors test two alternative models of learning to export. They uncover evidence of market learning but little evidence of productivity learning.

The authors consider the roles of learning, competition and market imperfections in determining three aspects of firm performance, namely firm exit, firm growth and productivity growth. They use a pooled panel data set of firms in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania that spans a period of five years.

The studys main aim is to derive elasticities of demand and supply for manufactured exports using time series data. These can be used as inputs into other studies, especially in the growing computable general equilibrium model arena.

The paper analyses empirically whether skill-biased
technological change and foreign direct investment play a role in explaining the skill-upgrading in Italian manufacturing industry during the 1990s. Empirical evidence does not provide support that the research and development effort undertaken in high-tech sectors by each group of firms has influence on Italian skill upgrading.

The paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity relationship within service industries.

The paper examines the role of multinational
corporations (MNCs) as the creator and diffuser of new and superior technologies. Results suggest that the spillovers from MNCs for the domestic sector of the Turkish manufacturing industry differentiate with respect to size of the recipient domestic firms and by time.

The paper investigates the critical elements that affect the ability of firms in developing countries to cultivate their technological capability through imported technology. Based on resource-based theory, the authors propose both internal and external factors contribute to technological capability of the recipient firms.