An Euler condition for optimal inventory accumulation is used to obtain information on the behavior of mark ups of price over marginal cost in U.S. manufacturing and trade. Data at the two-digit SIC level are used. Mark ups appear to be procyclical in most of the two-digit SIC sectors.  1997 Elsevier Science S.A.

T bullwhip effect is the phenomenon of increasing demand variability in the supply chain from downstream echelons (retail) to upstream echelons (manufacturing). The objective of this study is to document the strength of the bullwhip effect in industry-level U.S. data. In particular, we say an industry exhibits the bullwhip effect if the variance of the inflow of material to the industry (what m...

2 Manufacturing companies have historically had an on-off relation with technology. Most have aggressively adopted traditional technologies such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). However, they have been slow in adopting recent digital technologies such as big data analytics, real-time order confirmation, Web-EDI among others. Moreover, most have adopted technologies to varying extent creat...

Benford's Low is the mathematical phenomena that states that the first digits or left most digits in a list of numbers will occur with an expected logarithmic frequency. 1f'hile this method has been used in industries such as oil and gas and manufacturing to' identify fraudulent activity, it has not been applied to the health insurance industry. Since health insurance companies process a large ...

abstract almost, the traditional comparative advantage indices especially employment, value added and profitability are considered in all studies in the context of regional comparative advantage. while the study of comparative advantage, regardless of the sustainable development indices is a flawed study. therefore, in this study, in the first stage, iranian provinces are ranked according to em...

This paper analyses the geographical concentration of 32 manufacturing sectors over the 1972-1996 period, based on annual employment and export data for 13 European countries. Concentration has increased continuously over the sample period in employment terms, while remaining roughly unchanged in export terms. On average, increases in concentration were stronger prior to the launch of the Singl...

The extent of band s-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD countries over the period 1972–1992 shows large inter-industry differences. One reason for these differences is knowledge and capital barriers preventing the occurrence of catch-up. We find the level of average labor productivity, as a proxy for these barriers, is correlated with the extent...