We use the new economic geography perspective to explore the impacts of the Internet on the market linkages of two manufacturing and two service IT industries, and the consequential effects on their agglomeration. We study IT industry agglomeration at the county level across the entire United States during 1998-2004. The industries that we study are: computer manufacturing, semiconductors manuf...

the main objective of this study is to investigate the production factors productivity in large manufacturing sub-sectors. for this purpose, using statistical data for period 1972-2004, we have tried to study and analyze the trend and level of production factors productivity (partial and total productivity) in each sub-sectors classified according to isic two digits code. the average and margin...

this study presents an empirical evidence concerning the comparison of  the dynamics of competitiveness in the creative and manufacturing industries. it investigated the impact of the economic crisis in the behavior of the competitiveness of those industries. the samples were 42 firms taken from 3 sub-sectors of the creative industries and 3 sub-sectors of the manufacturing industries listed in...

We propose a joint iterative transmit/receive (Tx/Rx) minimum mean square error (MMSE) frequency-domain equalization (FDE) and intersymbol interference cancellation (ISIC) suitable for single-carrier (SC) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) with chase combining (CC). In the proposed scheme, a one-tap transmit MMSE-FDE and an iterative one-tap receive MMSE-FDE and ISIC are employed. Every tim...

a r t i c l e i n f o Using data on 3-digit industry for 1981–2004, the study examines the association between total factor productivity and economic reforms. We first obtain the industry-level productivity numbers using advanced econometric techniques and thereafter ascertain the time frame over which economic reforms impact productivity. The evidence suggests that productivity growth is not r...

a) Ecole polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratoire de spectroscopie ultrarapide, ISIC, FSB-BSP, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland b) Ecole polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratoire de chimie et biochimie computationnelles, ISIC, FSBBSP, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland c) Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland. d) Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisic...

The degree of automation at U.S. manufacturing plants differs widely across metropolitan areas. This paper examines the effect skill mix in a metropolitan area has on the degree of automation at plants in the area. In markets with a higher relative availability of lessskilled labor, comparable plants – even plants in the same narrow (4-digit SIC) industries – use less automation. The results ho...

This paper studies the impact of Demand-pull (DP) and Technology-push (TP) on growth, innovation, factor bias technological change in a two-layer network input–output (market) patent citation (innovation) links among 307 6-digit US manufacturing industries 1977–2012. Two types TP DP are distinguished: (1) between-layer spillovers when market demand shocks pull innovation pushes growth. (2) With...