manufacturing

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.

The paper studies the probability of survival of the manufacturing plants that start producing in Chile in the period 1979-1999 using a proportional hazards model. Opposing previous empirical international evidence, the survival diminishes with age, initial size, and with the rate of growth of the plant. It also diminishes with the regional unemployment rate.

The authors estimate the impact of import competition on labour productivity growth in Australian manufacturing using a panel data analysis for nearly three decades period. They also examine whether the impact of import competition varies across industries with domestic market structure.

The authors analyze the pre-exit performance of industrial firms using a French manufacturing firm-level dataset and focusing on the 1990-2000
period. They use three main performance indexes: size, total factor productivity and profitability indexes.

The report is designed to explore two concerns of manufacturing loss, specifically in Michigan. The authors look at data to see if there are other industries producing lots of new middle-class jobs and also explore whether high manufacturing concentrations are correlated with stronger state economies,

The paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. A cross-country decomposition analysis reveals that in some countries structural changes contributed considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements.

The paper discusses several questions related to the economic cycles, from the scientific methodological approach to isolate the economic cycles, to an empirical application using data of the Portuguese industrial sector, passing by the identification of the real economic cycles that modulated the productive activity during almost the last 5 decades of the 20th century, and by its rationality.

The paper separates and analyzes three distinct mechanisms behind trade-induced productivity change at the level of firms: competitive push, foreign input push, and competitive elimination. The author then evaluates their overall importance for productivity change in Brazilian manufacturing during the years 1986-98.

The objective of this paper is to identify the determinants of the decision to innovate in Taiwan. Three innovation strategies are considered : doing research and development only, importing technology only, and combining both.

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.