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Manufacturing, Services and the Productivity Gap
Arbache, Jorge - 2017
We examine a little explored and yet important aspect of the poor productivity in Brazil: the performance of the … service sector. The characteristics of the services sector in Brazil are well known – the sector is composed mainly of small …, underfunded, poorly equipped and poorly managed firms, competition is weak in several segments, and services quality and …
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Динамика Промышленного Производства в Январе-Октябре 2022 Г. (Industrial Production Dynamics in January-October 2022)
Kaukin, Andrey; Miller, Evgenia - 2023
In January-October 2022 industrial production demonstrated sluggish growth. The main contribution was made by the food industry, textile and garment production, metallurgy, and machine-building. The growth, among other things, was due to the replacement of foreign brands with domestic products...
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Динамика промышленного производства в третьем квартале 2021 г. (Industrial Production Dynamics in Q3 2021)
Kaukin, Andrey; Miller, Evgenia - 2022
In Q3 2021, industrial output growth was mainly driven by extractive industries owing to a pickup in demand for power-generating coal and natural gas and ebbing restrictions related to the OPEC+ agreement. The following factors kept affecting dynamics of different sectors of the Russian...
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Динамика промышленного производства в мае-июле 2021 г : факторы роста (Industrial Production Dynamics in May-July 2021: Growth Factors)...
Kaukin, Andrey; Miller, Evgenia - 2021
Analysis of trend components of production indices for May through July 2021 suggests that growth factors in trends for the extractive industries since the beginning of 2021 continue to have effect for two reasons: a pickup in demand for power-generating coal on the part of European and Asian...
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The Health and Competitiveness of the U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Industry
VerWey, John - 2019
In 1991 the United States International Trade Commission initiated an Industry and Trade Summary series of informational reports on products imported to, and exported from, the United States. As part of this series, analysts from the Office of Industries published a summary of the state of the...
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The impact of competition with China in the US market on innovation in Mexican manufacturing firms
Meza González, Liliana; Sepulveda, Jaime Marie - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 28 (2019), pp. 1-21
Using data from 6378 Mexican firms for the 2012–2013 period, this paper estimates the effect of competition with China … several variables, we find a U-curve shaped relationship between foreign competition (measured by the China effect) and the … is much larger than the negative linear effect, we conclude that an Escape-Competition effect dominates when Mexican …
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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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Survey Report on Research, Development, Innovation and Competitiveness in the Romanian Industry
Voinea, Liviu; Simionescu, Laura - 2015
competitiveness may suggest that the nature of competition on the domestic market is altered. Instead, foreign competitiveness of …
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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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Emerging patterns of manufacturing structural change
Haraguchi, Nobuya; Rezonja, Gorazd - 2011
In the past, research on changes in relative importance among broad three sectors - ;agriculture, industry, and service - showed general patterns of a country's structural transformation along with economic development. However, there has been devoid of empirical studies investigating in the...
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