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Wine packaging: marketing towards consumer lifestyle to build brand equity and increase revenue
Barber, Nelson; Taylor, D. Christopher; Deale, Cynthia S. - In: International Journal of Revenue Management 4 (2010) 3/4, pp. 215-237
The wine industry considered product quality as key to increasing competitiveness. However, when wines are perceived quality neutral, regardless of other existing differences, consumers will substitute one wine for another exposing producer to intense price competition. To differentiate wines, a...
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Minimum safety standard, consumer's information and competition
Marette, Stephan - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2007
L’objectif de cet article est d’étudier le lien entre un standard minimal de sécurité et la structure de concurrence entre producteurs. Un modèle théorique montre que le standard de sécurité et le nombre de producteurs dépendent de la structure d’information des consommateurs sur...
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The impact of procurement-driven technological change on U.S. manufacturing productivity growth
Saal, David - In: Defence and Peace Economics 12 (2001) 6, pp. 537-568
defense procurement as well as federal R&D expenditures were targeted to a few narrowly defined manufacturing sub-sectors that … produced high tech weaponry. Analysis employing data from the NBER Manufacturing Productivity Database and the BEA' s Input … performance of disaggregated manufacturing industries because of a process of procurement-driven technological change. …
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Synchronization of the Mexican and the U.S. Economies: The Case of the Manufacturing Sector. Sincronización entre las economías de México y Estados Unidos: el caso del Sector Manuf...
Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro; Ponce, Ramon A. Castillo; … - EconWPA - 2005
of Mexico and the United States with special reference to the manufacturing sector. The authors examine the dependency … also make a comparative analysis between the labor markets of the manufacturing industries in both countries. …
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The devil is in the details: assessing early industrial performance across international borders using late nineteenth century North American manufacturers as a case study.
Inwood, Kris; Keay, Ian - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 2 (2008) 2, pp. 85-117
/1871 to derive a series of total factor productivity (TFP) comparisons for a sample of manufacturing establishments located …
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Editor's Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 1-2
productivity levels in manufacturing; productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada; and a review of Angus Maddison …
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Editor's Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 1-2
contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards …
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Editor's Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 1-2
The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the...
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The U.S. Manufacturing Recovery: Uptick or Renaissance?
Celasun, Oya; Bella, Gabriel Di; Mahedy, Tim; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
The notable rebound of U.S. manufacturing activity following the Great Recession has raised the question of whether the … labor costs have had a positive impact on U.S. manufacturing production. While we find it unlikely for manufacturing to … become a main engine of growth in the United States, we find that U.S. manufacturing exports could provide nonnegligible …
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The Future of Manufacturing: The United States Stirs
Hart, David M. - In: Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 7 (2012) 3, pp. 25-34
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