In this paper, we evaluate the spatial location patterns of Spanish manufacturing firms and we assess the different tendencies to cluster in each industry relative to the whole of manufacturing. To do this, we use a distance-based method (Marcon and Puech, 2003; Duranton and Overman, 2005), more...

The Czech Republic has been a successful recipient of foreign direct investment over recent years. Therefore, it is important to understand the decisions made by foreign investors where to place their investments and how to decide about their location between alternative industries. The aim of...

Corporate managers are actively engaged to take business and financial decisions which results in long term value to their shareholders. Managers pursue this goal through their investment, financing and dividend decisions. Dividend policy refers to the payout the management decides to compensate...

The purpose of this paper is to study the profitability of the 166 non-financial companies of the BSE 200 index with particular emphasis on a pre- and post-recession analysis for the period 2001-2011 with an attempt to link the profitability with the liquidity of the sample firms. The study...

Results of Polish manufacturing branches performance assessment in 1999 (the section D “Manufacturing"; based on NACE; Nomenclatures des Activities de Communite Europeen; is shown. For the research, a vector of descriptive variables included in the state statistical reports was used. Their...

Unit labour costs (ULCs) are one of the key economic variables considered in the context of globalization, competitiveness and production-location decisions. With the EU accession of eight Central and East European countries and their (almost) full inclusion in the European Single Market, the...

Using time series historical data, the current paper analyzes the impacts of production factors on the intermediate industries in Qatar and their effects on productive efficiency. That done by the assessment of the production levels and total value added, in order to evaluate actual growth rates...

In this paper, we study the growth rates of 4-digit sectors in U.S. manufacturing. Two measures of size (value of shipments, value added) are considered, for each of the 38 years (1959-1996) of a sample of 458 4-digit sectors, drawn from the NBER Manufacturing Productivity database. Whole sample...

We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we could get more GDP without innovation by simply...