| Tekijä: | Carlsson, B. |
| Otsikko: | Flexible manufacturing and U.S. trade performance. |
| Lehti: | Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv
1991 : VOL. 127:2, p. 300-322 |
| Asiasana: | COMPETITIVENESS FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS USA INTERNATIONAL TRADE |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The widespread application of computers in manufacturing has brought vast change to the organisation, methods and control of manufacturing. As a result the cost advantage of mass production diminishes. The article tries to find out whether at the 3-digit level of aggregation of data for US engineering industries does flexibility help in explaining international trade flows and which model is better suited to explain the observed trade flows - an extended factor-proportions model or an intra-industry trade model. |
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