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Does size matter in determining the performance of manufacturing industries?

This paper examines the effect of size on the performance of industries within the economy. In a panel setting, it applies the augmented Cobb-Douglas model used by Mankiw et al. (1992) on 73 manufacturing industries in Malaysia for the period 1981-1999. Fixed effect is applied to levels and first di...

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Main Author: Aba Ibrahim, Nurhani
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2007
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TS Manufactures
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spelling my.uum.repo.24852011-02-22T09:47:10Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/2485/ Does size matter in determining the performance of manufacturing industries? Aba Ibrahim, Nurhani TS Manufactures This paper examines the effect of size on the performance of industries within the economy. In a panel setting, it applies the augmented Cobb-Douglas model used by Mankiw et al. (1992) on 73 manufacturing industries in Malaysia for the period 1981-1999. Fixed effect is applied to levels and first difference data. Different proxies for size are used to see if it makes a significant difference to the results. Results show that: (1) annual sales turnover is a better measure for size because it is not biased to capital intensive and labour intensive industries, (2) only the medium and large industries are found to have cyclical pattern, and (3) the change in the size of the large industries seems to be able to explain more of the variations in output per labour compared to the medium and small ones. 2007 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/2485/1/Nurhani_Aba_Ibrahim.pdf Aba Ibrahim, Nurhani (2007) Does size matter in determining the performance of manufacturing industries? In: International Economic Conference on Trade and Industry (IECTI) 2007, 3 - 5 December 2007, Bayview Hotel Georgetown, Penang. (Unpublished)
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Aba Ibrahim, Nurhani
Does size matter in determining the performance of manufacturing industries?
description This paper examines the effect of size on the performance of industries within the economy. In a panel setting, it applies the augmented Cobb-Douglas model used by Mankiw et al. (1992) on 73 manufacturing industries in Malaysia for the period 1981-1999. Fixed effect is applied to levels and first difference data. Different proxies for size are used to see if it makes a significant difference to the results. Results show that: (1) annual sales turnover is a better measure for size because it is not biased to capital intensive and labour intensive industries, (2) only the medium and large industries are found to have cyclical pattern, and (3) the change in the size of the large industries seems to be able to explain more of the variations in output per labour compared to the medium and small ones.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Aba Ibrahim, Nurhani
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title Does size matter in determining the performance of manufacturing industries?
title_short Does size matter in determining the performance of manufacturing industries?
title_full Does size matter in determining the performance of manufacturing industries?
title_fullStr Does size matter in determining the performance of manufacturing industries?
title_full_unstemmed Does size matter in determining the performance of manufacturing industries?
title_sort does size matter in determining the performance of manufacturing industries?
publishDate 2007
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/2485/1/Nurhani_Aba_Ibrahim.pdf
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