Drastic changes and turbulence in macro-economic factors have the greatest impact on banks target market attractiveness in Iran. It is assumed that conventional segmentation models at the corporate level are not efficient for banking system. This study aims to develop a new segmentation model at the industry level for banks of Iran. For this purpose, structures and variables at the industry lev...

Using data from 11 manufacturing industries in 17 OECD countries, this paper empirically investigates the determinants of cross-country differences in the persistence of productivity differentials. Specifically, the paper focuses on the effects of product market structure and technology diffusion. It is found that the manufacturing industries display a wide range of convergence rates. Consisten...

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor D.E., 43400, Malaysia. Department of Manufacturing Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang (UMP) 26300, Malaysia. Senior Staff Researcher in Artificial Intelligence Center, MIMOS Berhad Technology Park Malaysia, 57000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Department of Industrial Management, Islamic Aza...

Using data from 11 manufacturing industries in 17 OECD countries, this paper empirically investigates the determinants of cross-country differences in the persistence of productivity differentials. Specifically, the paper focuses on the effects of product market structure and technology diffusion. It is found that the manufacturing industries display a wide range of convergence rates. Consisten...

We analyze a panel of 230 Canadian manufacturing industries to investigate whether trade liberalization promotes efficiency through increased scale. During the six years following the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, Canadian manufacturing exhibited substantial rationalization – a decline in the number of plants accompanied by increases in output per plant. We find that the bilatera...

The electronics and semiconductor industries rely heavily on failure and defect analysis to maximize productivity and minimize expensive downtime. As technology improves, manufactured devices get smaller and the processes used to make them become more intricate. Costly downtime associated with the presence of particulate and chemical contamination becomes more critical to a successful manufactu...

Agglomeration Economies, or production cost savings due to geographic clustering of firms and industries, can enhance the growth and development of firms, industries, regions and cities. We provide an overview of the theory and empirical literature of agglomeration, and highlight several applications from the cost function perspective. These applications include cost savings from density in the...

This volume examines collective bargaining in eight major industries: airlines, automobile manufacturing, health care, hotels and casinos, newspaper publishing, professional sports, telecommunications, and trucking. The book examines how these industries have responded to globalization, increasing management antipathy toward unions and the declining effectiveness of strikes. The authors trace t...

T his paper investigates the gain of bilateral trade between China and U.S. in manufacturing sectors when both countries play a role in asymmetric (biased) growth of  international trade. Our model includes a special case of Biased Growth Theory in international trade. We collected labor productivity, export and import data by using classification of manufacturing industries, for U.S...