En el presente trabajo se estudian los impactos de un cambio institucional como la reforma laboral del 2002 sobre la demanda laboral colombiana, con base en datos panel suministrados por la Encuesta Anual Manufacturera desagregada a cuatro dígitos CIUU para el periodo 2001-2006 y de acuerdo a...

Following Bernard, Redding and Schott (2010), we have constructed product and firm level data on Japanese manufacturing firms using the Census of Manufacturers. Our empirical analysis based on the constructed data shows that multiple-product firms perform better than single-product firms and...

Profitability provides a yardstick for judging the operational efficiency, growth, and survival of a business enterprise. This study investigates the determinants of firm profitability in the Chinese manufacturing sector, with a focus on the impact of foreign entry on the profitability of...

Questo lavoro intende fornire una visione di insieme dei vari settori del Manifatturiero in Italia, evidenziandone i principali fattori di forza e di debolezza sulla base di un articolato Database elaborato recentemente dall’ISTAT. In particolare, la ricerca ha messo in luce una serie di...

Der Wandel der Produktions- und Nachfragebedingungen verlangt von den Unternehmen immer wieder Anpassungen ihrer Produktpalette. Die Mehrzahl der Unternehmen im verarbeitenden Gewerbe in Deutschland verfolgten dabei eine Spezialisierungsstrategie. Sie konzentrieren sich auf die Erstellung und...

The purpose of this study is to give a financial synoptic, annual image of the state of the real economy, using the annual balance sheets of the economic agents. The objectives of the paper aim to implement some significant indicators (secondary, tertiary, aggregate, etc.) in the economic...

The paper aims to add information on the increase of structural heterogeneity in the Brazilian industry. Using data from the Industrial Annual Survey, the paper concludes that: (i) there is an increase in the structural heterogeneity of the Brazilian industry, if one analyzes the increase in...

The change of production and demand conditions requires continues adjustments of the product portfolio of enterprises. Based on representative micro data of official surveys for Germany these adjustments are set here in relationship with the success of enterprises. It can be shown that the...

Manufacturing exhibits nonlinear trends in production levels, one being an active state and the other a passive state. We use a Markov model to estimate these two states, which are tied to United States imports of Mexican products. A regression is made in order to estimate whether there is an...

We test two questions: (i) Is the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) more parsimonious than Akaike Information Criterion (AIC)? and (ii) Is BIC better than AIC for forecasting purposes? By using simulated data, we provide statistical inference of both hypotheses individually and then jointly...