...Carolina Troncoso Baltar; Celio Hiratuka; Gilberto Tadeu Lima Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of the real exchange rate on investment in the Brazilian manufacturing industry. Design/methodology/approach – The authors develop an investment model that considers...

... indicating that institutional shareholders don’t serve to discipline managers (Bethel and Liebeskind, 1993; Lowenstein, 1991). © MCB UP Limited 2000 Agencies Costs Control systems Ownership Manufacturing industry Turkey Agency costs arise within a firm whenever managers pursue...

... are the residual factor or technological progress. Therefore, this model measures the contribution of exports to total‐factor productivity. Economic growth Exports Manufacturing industry USA Since the introduction of flexible exchange rates in the early 1970s, the growth of the US economy has...

... Industrial Economies, New York. Willmore, L. (1979), "The Industrial Economics of Intra-industry Trade and Specialization", in Giersch, H. (Ed On the Economics ofIntra-industry Trade: Symposium, Tubingen, Germany. Economics Economies of scale Manufacturing industry USA © MCB UP Limited 1991 ...

...M.S. Silver; J.F. Lowe The relative performance of manufacturing industry in Wales and the UK is appraised using a range of performance measures related to a number of concepts of efficiency, which are outlined. The four measurement approaches are: productivity analysis and efficiency frontiers...