Electricity authorities in the UAE have not been successful in developing reliable and accurate models of system peak load. In this study, we develop a time-series-based decision-support system that integrates data management, model base management, simulation, graphic display, and statistical...

The recent theoretical literature has suggested that increasing returns to scale are necessary to account for the volume of intraindustry trade among developed economies. The present paper shows that such trade can arise quite naturally in a setting with constant returns to scale. ; An example...

We extend the research of Ward et al. [Ward P, Duray R, Leong G, Sum C. Business environment, operations strategy and performance: an empirical study of Singapore manufacturers. Journal of Operations Management 1995;25 99-115] to the business environment of developing industries by adding two...

Like U.S. companies in many industries. American's bank's attention to capital structure is reflected in their high level of stock repurchases in recent years. But, if banks are responding to some of the same economic forces that are driving industrial firms to shed excess capital, there are...

Does national market size matter for industrial structure? This has been suggested by theoretical work on "home market" effects, as in Krugman (1980, 1995). In this paper, I show that what previously was regarded as an assumption of convenience — transport costs only for the differentiated...