This paper explores the effects of import competition on manufacturing sector in Chile following implementation country’s two largest Free Trade Agreements (FTA) (with USA and China). Exploiting cross-industry variation exposure, we analyse sales, employment labour productivity at finest level industrial classification (4 digit ISIC level). We detect an overall negative effect increased Chinese...

__________________________________________________________________ This paper develops a methodology for predicting the impact of trade liberalization on exports by industry (3-digit ISIC) based on the pre-liberalization distribution of exports by product (5-digit SITC). Using the results of Kehoe and Ruhl (2013) that much of the growth in trade after trade liberalization is in products that ar...

market structure is one of the most important characteristics of every industry. although, there exist different indices such as concentration, economies of scale, entry of firms, product differentiation, etc. for the evaluation of market structure, but most of the studies in the subject have used only one of these indices (usually concentration). in this study, by application of fuzzy inferenc...

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...

This study measured the impact of Covid-19 on total revenue manufacturing micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Bali, aggregate specifically by each type 2-digit ISIC. Using Cobb-Douglas model, fixed capital, number labors, factors related to technical inefficiency were also evaluated. According findings, decreased about one-fifth during pandemic. Specifically, significant was experienced MSEs ...

this paper using generalized roeger's model calculated the lerner index for iranian active industries in 4-digit isic codes during the period 1995-2007. the findings indicate that the lerner index has been between 8 to 16 percent in 38 industries among 131 ones. the index also in different industries shows that more than 50 percent of iranian industries have monopolistic power such that th...

Labour Use and Its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model applied to a panel of 22 two-digit manufacturing industries for the time period of 22 years cov...