â â â  â â  abstract: â  china and asean have been maintaining a relationship both cooperative and competitive in the textile trade. due to its labor intensive feature and high dependence on foreign trade , the textile trade has received much attention after the 2008 financial crisis. the customs data (classified by the hs code) from year 2006-2009 is employed to research the impact of the cris...

Does corporate diversification reduce shareholder value? Since firms endogenously choose to diversify, exogenous variation in diversification is necessary to draw inferences about the causal effect. We examine changes in the within-firm dispersion of industry investment, or ‘‘diversity’’. We find that exogenous changes in diversity, due to changes in industry investment, are negatively related ...

This paper investigates the determinants of Spanish vertical intra-industry trade with a large sample of countries. We empirically test the comparative advantage explanation. To this aim, we build physical, human and technological capital stocks. On average, that is using OLS techniques, differences in endowments are a limitation for vertical intra-industry trade. Using quantile regressions tec...

environmental pollutions are in considerable attention in steel industries in iran, where mostly are located around isfahan. therefore, an investigation was done mainly on the industrial pollution and waste related to the isfahan steel complex. a plant was installed to collect the uncontrolled fumes, gases and particulates from blast furnace number ii during tapping. this plant collects about 2...

background: noise pollution is currently a major health risk factor for workers in industries. the aim of this study was to investigate noise pollution and implement a control intervention plan for blast furnace in a steel industry. methods: the measurement of sound pressure level (spl) along with frequency analysis was done with the sound-level-meter cell-450 . personal noise exposure was perf...

Estimating Cross-Industry Cross-Country Models Using Benchmark Industry Characteristics* International industry data permits testing whether the industry-specific impact of cross-country differences in institutions or policies is consistent with economic theory. Empirical implementation requires specifying the industry characteristics that determine impact strength. Most of the literature has b...

this paper aims to estimate a model of demand for health insurance and medical care in iran in the presence of the heterogeneous and latent health status of individual; moreover it tests the asymmetry of information in the health insurance industry of iran. our dataset consists of whole family budget survey of 2006. the parameters of model are estimated by g.m.m method and the model used in thi...

bullwhip effect phenomenon is what reduces the efficiency of the supply chain. the effect occurs when demand changes in the supply chain face with a lot of volatility. so far, several key factors have been identified as causes of this phenomenon. since the steel industry, is the basic one, its efficiency is of great importance. therefore, in this study influencing factors on bullwhip effect in ...

During the last century the steel industry was influenced by several crises which invoked strong innovation activities in development of new classes of steels. innovation was based on the statement of representative of automotive industry bernhard rolinson who said: “Steel has a long tradition but despite of this its potential from the point of view of material properties is exploited only to 2...

In order to improve efficiency of cutting process in production industry, development of new steel which has good machinablity is desired. The work material which has good surface roughness, easy breakable chip and small tool wear as the good machinablity is expected. And the free-machining steel was developed owning to adding elements which could make the machinablity better. Of all others, le...