Every machine degrades with time and requires maintenance. Among all types of maintenance policies, predictive maintenance is established as the best form of maintenance policy as numerous benefits are associated with it. Despite all the benefits, it finds restrictive usage in manufacturing...

Financing resources play a significant role in escalating export ventures particularly of MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) which face a stiff competition from the larger firms. Finance is essential not only for successful operation of current activities of the firm but also aids in...

The goal of the analysis here is the application of the later task. This is due to severe problems with the data on low aggregation levels. This task is becoming more and more important in the context of Basel II recommendations which requires enterprise rating. This may be reasonable,...

In this paper we measure the speed at which firms adjust to demand shocks using individual firm data. Identification of shocks is achieved by a combination of quantitative and qualitative judgments on capacity utilisation in micro survey data. A novel feature of our approach is the distinction...

In this paper we measure the speed at which firms adjust to demand shocks using individual firm data. Identification of shocks is achieved by a combination of quantitative and qualitative judgments on capacity utilisation in micro survey data. A novel feature of our approach is the distinction...

The study investigates the factors that influence dividend payout policy in public manufacturing Pakistani companies throughout the timeframe 2010-20. Pooled OLS technique was used for regression purpose, as the majority of companies does not pay a dividend at all or regularly so all these firms...

Empirical works dealing with the issue of heterogeneous technological regimes in firm and industry level innovation effects generally use exploratory data analysis methods to map firms’ innovative activity to these regimes following the taxonomical approach work of Pavitt (1984). Using a...

Manufacturers selling in foreign markets often do not completely pass on the effects of fluctuations in exchange rates to the trade prices of their products. Our paper addresses this puzzle and studies the effects of the international distribution channel on exchange rate pass-through. We...

This paper analyzes the exporting behaviour of manufacturing firms located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys Database. It specifically examines the factors that determine the probability of exporting and the export intensity of...