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Global Competitiveness of U.S. Advanced-Technology Manufacturing Industries : Large Civil Aircraft

Andersen, Peder A. - 2009

The analysis presented in this study focuses primarily on the LCA manufacturing industries in the United States and Western Europe. It also includes some discussion of Russia’s LCA industry, which is beginning to produce aircraft for export. Although Japan is not a producer of LCA, it is...

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Fear of China : Is There a Future for Manufacturing in Latin America?

Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - 2004

China's emergence has raised pointed questions about the future of manufacturing in Latin America. Once saw as its economic future, the viability of this activity in the region has long been challenged by traditional trade theory and, in practical terms, by at least three generations of Asian...

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The Deaths of Manufacturing Plants

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford - 2012

This paper examines the causes of manufacturing plant deaths within and across industries in the U.S. from 1977-1997. The effects of international competition from low wage countries, exporting, ownership structure, product diversity, productivity, geography, and plant characteristics are...

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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing

Greenstone, Michael; List, John A.; Syverson, Chad - 2012

The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...

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Industrial Competition, Shifts in Market Share and Productivity Growth

Baldwin, John R.; Gu, Wulong - 2009

This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of turnover - the process that shifts output from one firm to another as a result of the competitive process. Turnover occurs because some firms gain market share and others lose it. Some turnover is due to entry and...

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Does history matter for the relationship between R&D, innovation and productivity?

Huergo Orejas, Elena; Moreno Martín, Lourdes - 2010

This paper analyzes the relationship between R&D expenditures, innovation and productivity growth, taking into account the possibility of persistence in firms’ behaviour. We study this relationship for a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms between 1990 and 2005, estimating a model with four...

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Eine Branche unter Druck : die Bedeutung der Autoindustrie für Deutschland

Puls, Thomas; Fritsch, Manuel - 2020

Konkurrenz. Auch die Wertschöpfung am Standort Deutschland profitierte hiervon und die Autoindustrie wuchs deutlich schneller als … das Verarbeitende Gewerbe. Ihre wirtschaftliche Bedeutung für den Industriestandort Deutschland stieg im Zuge dieser … Prozent der gesamten Bruttowertschöpfung in Deutschland. Etwas mehr als 7 Prozent aller Beschäftigungsverhältnisse waren …

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Technology and innovation management in German and Japanese manufacturing firms: strategic reorientation and implications for technological competitiveness

Hemmert, Martin - In: Systemic change in the Japanese and German economies : …, (pp. 133-160). 2004

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The Link Between Firms? Innovation Decision and the Business Cycle: An Empirical Analysis

Heger, Diana - 2004

The sensitivity of innovation activities with respect to the business cycle is often assumed to be small. In this paper the hypothesis on cyclical dependence of innovation activities is tested for firms in the German manufacturing, and additionally for SMEs. To this end firms? innovation...

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Ein einfaches Verfahren zur Berücksichtigung heterogener Preisbildung und Marktmacht auf unvollkommenen Gütermärkten in Produktivitätsschätzungen

Carstensen, Vivian - 2003

Präferenzen für Gütervielfalt und hieraus resultierende heterogene Preisbildung auf unvollkommenen Gütermärkten werden in empirischen Produktivitätsuntersuchungen bislang nur unzureichend berücksichtigt. Der vorliegende Beitrag möchte zur Schließung dieser Forschungslücke beitragen: Er...

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