uncertainty. Unsynchronised deliveries can disrupt production, and delivery time can force producers to order components before … incentives for clustering. If final assembly takes place in two locations and component production has increasing returns to … scale, then component production will tend to cluster around just one of the assembly plants …

smaller production and losses of workers. On the demand side, global buyers were not able to shift sourcing to Kenyan …

costs of changing production as well as substantial costs of being away from target inventory, the latter being a function … characteristics of the demand process. In the automobile industry, inventory behavior is destabilizing: the variance of production is …Understanding inventory movements is central to an understanding of business cycles. This paper presents an empirical …

-level production and input factor choices are affected by payroll taxes …

The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on … Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with … of input use. The equilibrium organization of production and the network structure of input-output linkages arise …

production. At the same time United States experienced a "transportation revolution", a key component of which was the building …

This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to … role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early development. Domestic pig iron production is found to be highly … sensitive to changes in import prices. Although import price fluctuations had a much greater impact on U.S. production than …

productivity across sectors exhibits weak correlation. While previous work examined production complementarity, our analysis … production and a low marginal cost of replication, sectors can share the cost to forecast their sector-specific productivity …

This paper examines how devaluations affect the relative costs of labor and capital and therefore influence production …