Production capital and technology, fundamental to understanding output and productivity growth, are unobserved except … of capital and technology for the sample period. We apply the method to annual data from 1947-97 for U.S. total … manufacturing and compare the estimates with those reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. …

The paper studies the degree of homogeneity of innovative behavior in order to determine empirically an industry … classification of Dutch manufacturing that can be used for policy purposes. We use a twolimit tobit model with sample selection … Dutch manufacturing consists of three groups of industries in terms of innovative behavior, a hightech group, a low …

estimate the resulting price-setting equations for 18 US manufacturing industries defined at the SIC 2-digit level over the …

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition … in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

We examine the comovements between the output indexes of three German sectors (manufacturing, mining, and agriculture …