By Gordon H. Hanson and Chong Xiang Abstract. We develop a monopolistic-competition model of trade with many industries to examine how home-market effects vary with industry characteristics. Industries with high transport costs and more differentiated products tend to be more concentrated in large countries than industries with low transport costs and less differentiated products. We test this ...

Technology advancements have made possible the implementation of embedded systems within appliances used in offices, industries and home. The automation system improves the lifestyle of the control of the devices at offices, colleges, industries and home. This seminar presents a possible solution whereby the user controls devices by employing a central Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) contr...

This study examines how industrial characteristics at home affect Chinese overseas acquisition activities from an industry-level resource-based view. Analyzing data on 512 Chinese overseas acquisition deals across 36 industries in 60 countries over 2003–2008, we find that: (1) firms in industries with higher levels of technology intensity are more likely to acquire foreign firms, while firms in...

This study explains one way the home country institutional environment causes strategy differences across firms from different countries. It contrasts the investment conduct of American, German, and Japanese firms in the 10 largest manufacturing industries. We find profound national differences among these firms that are stable across industries. These differing conducts are tied to the institu...

This study aims to identify and analyze the impact of Covid-19 on home industry SMEs sector. The research method used was a literature study. Literature is conducted by examining ten previous studies strategies survive during pandemic. Small medium enterprises (SMEs) are edge cliff. pandemic caused economic downturn. lockdown stopped activity, reduced demand, interactions with others. At beginn...

Job satisfaction has been shown to have a direct relationship to the quality of work. Are nursing home administrators satisfied with their work? How do they compare with their counterparts in other industries? The results of this survey, using the Job Description Index (JDI) and the Job in General (JIG) scale as published by Bowling Green State University, indicate that nursing home administrat...

This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds and their relationship to the funds’ organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when domestic equity prices are higher, and invest abroad when foreign prices are higher. Funds see the industry P/E ratios of their home inve...