manufacturing

According to the author, the sharp divergence in the 2001 recession between two key economic indicators--manufacturing production and goods output--could suggest that one indicator is flawed, casting doubt on the reliability of its overall series. The analysis finds no evidence of error. Rather, the strength of spending on consumer--relative to capital--goods and the growth of merchandising services in the sale of consumer goods more likely explain the recent deviation.

The paper investigates how changes in technology use of individual plants in the Canadian
manufacturing sector are related to two measures of performance—productivity growth and market-share growth. The paper also describes whether plants are adopting new advanced technologies and if they do so, whether they enjoy superior performance in these two areas.

The paper analyzes state level data from the
manufacturing sector in India for the period 1986-87 to 1999-00 to study the efficiency dynamics of a "typical" firm in individual states during the pre- and post reform years. Findings indicate no major change in the efficiency ranking of states after the reforms.

The paper investigates the usefulness of the semi-
parametric spatial vector autoregressive approach proposed by Chen and Conley (JE 2001) in modeling the growth rates of total factor productivity for a large cross-section of U.S. manufacturing industries.

The paper examines the link between structural change between and within industries. The authors analyze the influence of sector specific developments in productivity and demand on net entry and employment in 19 industrial sectors of the Austrian economy.

The study implies that identifying localisation remains
a delicate process, since the right sectorial scale has to be detected case by case, the use of more than one technique usually gives additional insights. The study also confirms that in field studies, a mix of different theoretical models is generally needed to
explain the observed patterns.

Using panel data on 20 Canadian manufacturing industries (1961-1997) and time-series data (1961-2000) for the entire Canadian manufacturing sector, the paper finds that the elasticities of output with respect to M&E capital stock and M&E investment are well above capitals share of national income suggested by a constant returns to scale Cobb Douglas production function.

The authors examine one aspect of this literature on gross employment flows through the lens of dynamic models and theories of industrial evolution. Results provide a basis for discussing aspects of the different dynamics of job creation in services and manufacturing.

The paper investigates whether liquidity constraints affect firm size and growth dynamics using a large longitudinal sample of Italian manufacturing firms. Results of the study suggest that the strong negative impact of liquidity constraints on firm growth which was present in the pooled sample becomes ambiguous when one disaggregates across years.

The paper undertakes a decomposition analysis of the output growth of Indian manufacturing sector. A major finding of the empirical exercise relates to minimal or negative contribution of technology to output growth.