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  • Trade costs and business dynamics in U.S. regions and industries

    Creator:
    Wu, Qian
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    Firms' participation in exporting or foreign direct investment is an extremely rare behavior: only 4 percent of over 5.5 million U.S. firms were exporters in 2000. Exporters are generally larger (e.g. output and employment) and more productive than firms serving only domestic markets. Such heterogeneity within a narrowly defined industry...
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    previously not recognized in trade literature: (i) exit of low productivity firms, and (ii) resource

  • Trade and productivity effects on firm behavior : the case of Korean manufacturing

    Creator:
    Kim, Sooil
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    This dissertation’s three essays investigate trade and productivity effects on firm behavior based on new heterogeneous-firms trade models in the case of Korea. In the first essay, firms’ decision to export in the case of Korean manufacturing industries is examined, where the change in firms’ productivity before and after exports...
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    markets. In industries where Korea has a comparative advantage, high productivity of firms appears to

  • Three essays on international trade and regional productivity

    Creator:
    Moon, Hanpil
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    A firm's productivity is composed of two parts: pure technical change and location-specific (agglomeration) externalities. Regional productivity is thus an aggregation of productivity of firms producing similar goods and located in a given region. International trade can affect both components of regional productivity. First, trade openness in a closed economy...
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    affects regional productivity using county-level data from Korea and firm-level data from India

  • Three essays on firm heterogeneity and regional development

    Creator:
    Saito, Hisamitsu
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    The objective of this dissertation is to theoretically and empirically examine the role of firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity and skill-intensity in the agglomeration process and the effect of agglomeration on regional economic development. In the first essay, I analyze the effect of trade liberalization on agglomeration of high-...
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    productivity include specializing in targeted industry, diversifying regional industrial structure, enlarging

  • The development of productivity interfirm comparison procedures for the cement industry of Saudi Arabia

    Creator:
    Al-Agha, Osama K.
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    Productivity Interfirm Comparison (PIC) is a simple method used to improve productivity at the firm level, where a number of firms operate in the same product line so that performance information on the firms can be compiled and compared. This results in identifying potential areas for improvement or exploitation. The...
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    The development of productivity interfirm comparison

  • The development and implementation of team productivity training

    Creator:
    Hanlen, Deborah G.
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    A unique team productivity raining program was developed and implemented for Electro-Scientific Industries, Inc. (ESI). This program was designed to train shop floor workers in teamwork skills and traditional industrial engineering techniques. In this way, problem-solving tools are available to the hourly manufacturing worker for use in improving communications, quality,...
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    The development and implementation of team productivity

  • Productivity interfirm comparison : methodologies with a special application to the Northwest food processors

    Creator:
    Park, Tongkyu
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    Based on the premise that interfirm comparison can be an effective productivity improvement tool, productivity interfirm comparison (PIC) methods are examined in this research. The first part is an extensive literature review regarding the conventional interfirm comparison (IFC) scheme accepted widely in many countries outside the United States. Then, the...
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    industrial nations. Nations with low productivity growth are likely to have high inflation, persistent

  • Prevailing opinions about productivity performance and improvement

    Creator:
    Anaya-Sánchez, Carlos G.
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    The intent of this study was to survey opinions of producine managers and industrial engineers concerning several aspects of productivity. The survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire. The number of questionnaires administered was 540. Useful responses were 145 (27%). In addition to English, there were versions of the...
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    Industrial Engineering presented on September 2v, 1979 Title: PREVAILING OPINIONS ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY

  • New non-parametric efficiency measures : an application to the U.S. brewing industry

    Creator:
    Zelenyuk, Valentin
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    This study focuses on the development of new, non-parametric efficiency measures based on the idea of aggregation via merging functions. We use Shephard's (1970) axiomatic approach of distance functions as the basis for theoretical methodology. In particular, this approach is a background for non-parametric efficiency measures defined on a linearly...
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    traditional industrial organization theory. In his analysis he makes several arguments. On the demand side

  • Multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior

    Creator:
    Choi, Jangho
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    The objective of this dissertation is to examine multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior. More specifically, this dissertation estimates productivity of firms that produce and sell multiple products, and the role of productivity in such firms' export behavior. In doing so, this dissertation develops a firm-level gravity approach to test...
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    Multi-Product Firms' Productivity and Export Behavior