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The factory-built housing industry, while originating from mobile homes, has seen new industry-segments emerge such as, for example, modular, panelized, and pre-cut homes. These new segments have promoted the ability of existing producers to diversify. As producers of factory-built homes merge their production capabilities amongst these industry-segments the structure and the capacity of the industry is profoundly changing. This study looks at both the manufactured home industry-segment as well as the entire factory-built home industry to analyze how the current state of the industry is positioned to drive these foreseeable changes. Analysis of the manufactured home industry-segment is highlighted by econometric modeling of market share data across manufactured housings' product life-cycle curve. Results of this modeling mimic three periods of product life cycle change that ends with the current market share decline. Being so, it is concluded that manufactured housing firms are currently seeking fight or flight strategies to combat deepening market share losses. Producers of manufactured housing who persist in this industry-segment will confront mounting consolidation whereas producers who flee are likely to undergo strategic transformations. A mail questionnaire alternatively targeted the U.S. factory-built home industry to assess how diversification currently impacts industry structure and market share positioning. Results of this questionnaire reveal that two-product producers are strategically diversifying to hedge current demand fluctuations in the U.S. residential home market while also promoting market share positions. As a result it is concluded that product diversification positively impacts market share growth within the factory-built home industry. / Master of Science

No / Trade data are often classified by product characteristics. We propose a new classification ¿sophistication¿ as a means of distinguishing between products. We construct a sophistication index based on the income levels of exporting economies. Sophistication captures a range of factors including technology, ease of product fragmentation, natural resource availability, and marketing. We calculate sophistication scores at the 3- and 4-digit levels and test how far the index relates to existing technological classifications of products. We use the index to examine trade patterns and illustrate how it can be applied in the analysis of export performance of individual economies.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work has the main objective of assess the competitiveness of pork meat exports from Brazil and its most important competitors on the international market (Germany, United States, Denmark and Canada), from 1990 to 2012. To this end, the Constant Market Share (CMS) method was used, comprising three effects: world trade; destination; and competitiveness. In order to better capture the changes in exports during the time, five sub periods were chosen, 1990/1993, 1994/1998, 1999/2002, 2003/2008 and 2009/2012. The analysis has demonstrated that United States are the most competitive country during the analyzed period, followed by Brazil. Although United States are more competitive, the growth percentage from Brazil was higher, 4,449.53%, while United States had 2,055.96% of growth. For both countries, ninety percent of this growth occurred due to increasing competitiveness. Denmark was the second country in pork meat exports in 1990, while Brazil and United States were not even among the ten larger exporters. However, Denmark presented the lowest percentage growth and the main reason was the decline of the competitiveness, not showing any positive competitiveness effect in the sub periods. Despite of been less competitive than the United States and Brazil, Germany is by now the largest exporter, with 704.45% of growth. Competitiveness was key to this growth in the complete period, but the increase in the imports of its most important importers was more relevant than in the other analyzed countries. Canada was the only country were most part of the exports growth was due to world trade growth of this product. The country also outstands because of its negative growing tendency at its main trade markets, especially the United States, which has become one of the larger players of world pig farming. / Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal avaliar a competitividade das exportações de carne suína do Brasil e dos maiores competidores no mercado internacional (Alemanha, Estados Unidos, Dinamarca e Canadá), no período de 1990 a 2012. Para isso, utiliza-se como método o Constant Market Share (CMS), decomposto em três efeitos: comércio mundial; destino; e competitividade. Para captar melhor as mudanças nas exportações ao longo do tempo, foram definidos cinco subperíodos, 1990/1993, 1994/1998, 1999/2002, 2003/2008 e 2009/2012. A análise demonstrou que os Estados Unidos são o país mais competitivo no período analisado, seguido pelo Brasil. Apesar dos Estados Unidos serem mais competitivos, o crescimento percentual do Brasil foi maior, 4.449,53%, enquanto o dos Estados Unidos foi de 2.055,96%. Para ambos os países, mais de noventa por cento desse crescimento ocorreu devido ao aumento da competitividade. A Dinamarca era o segundo país que mais exportava carne suína em 1990, enquanto o Brasil e os Estados Unidos sequer estavam entre os dez maiores. No entanto, a Dinamarca apresentou o menor crescimento percentual e o principal motivo foi a queda da competitividade, não apresentando nenhum subperíodo com efeito competitividade positivo. Apesar de se mostrar menos competitiva que os Estados Unidos e o Brasil, a Alemanha é o atual maior exportador, com crescimento de 704,45%. A competitividade foi fundamental para esse crescimento no período todo, mas o aumento nas importações em seus principais mercados se mostrou mais relevante que nos outros países analisados. O Canadá foi o único país onde a maior parte do crescimento ocorreu devido ao crescimento do comércio mundial desse produto. O país se destaca também pela tendência negativa de crescimento nos seus principais mercados compradores, especialmente os Estados Unidos, por este ter se tornado um dos maiores players da suinocultura mundial.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-04-24T12:21:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciane Franke_.pdf: 1024369 bytes, checksum: 206995405df8b48a3e5f712fca263cb7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-24T12:21:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciane Franke_.pdf: 1024369 bytes, checksum: 206995405df8b48a3e5f712fca263cb7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-26 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A China tem firmado sua posição de protagonista no cenário mundial, enquanto que os países da América Latina parecem ainda não ter consolidado seu papel como exportadores de produtos industrializados. O crescimento chinês apresenta-se como um desafio para os países latino-americanos, especialmente, por dominar as exportações de produtos industrializados. Dessa forma, o objetivo deste trabalho é determinar o impacto do desempenho da China no comércio mundial sobre as exportações de produtos com conteúdo tecnológico de México, Brasil, Chile e Argentina. Para tanto, são definidos dois modelos: de competitividade, para identificar as implicações dos ganhos de market share da China, e deslocamento, para analisar o impacto do aumento das exportações chinesas. Utilizam-se exercícios econométricos de dados em painel, considerando-se as exportações de conteúdo tecnológico dos países selecionados, conforme a taxonomia de Pavitt (1984), para 52 parceiros comerciais. As estimativas identificaram que o efeito China está deslocando as exportações de México e Brasil. Quanto aos ganhos competitivos da China, as estatísticas estimadas revelaram baixos coeficientes de elasticidade para todos os países selecionados. Os resultados sugerem que a participação de mercado chinesa avança em níveis mais elevados que as exportações de México, Brasil, Chile e Argentina. / China has established its leading role on the world economy, while Latin American countries do not seem to have strengthened their role as exporters of industrialized products. Chinese economic growth is a challenge for the Latin American countries, especially because of the importance of the exports of industrialized products. Therefore, the aim of this work is to determine the impact of China's performance in world trade on the exports of products with technological content from Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. For this purpose, two models are defined: competitiveness, to identify the implications of China's market share gains, and displacement, to analyze the impact of the increase in Chinese exports. We applied the econometric exercise of panel data, considering the exports of technological content of the above-mentioned countries, according to the taxonomy of Pavitt (1984), for 52 commercial partners. Our results indicate that China’s exports displace exports from Mexico and Brazil. As for China's competitive gains, the estimated statistics revealed low coefficients of elasticity for all selected countries. The results suggest that Chinese market share is advancing at higher levels than exports from Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-07-06T12:45:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Manuela Gomes de Lima.pdf: 883281 bytes, checksum: 4b78d080e8a45e184d5ff754cbf2c0a8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-06T12:45:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Manuela Gomes de Lima.pdf: 883281 bytes, checksum: 4b78d080e8a45e184d5ff754cbf2c0a8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Nenhuma / O objetivo principal deste trabalho foi avaliar, com base na literatura recente sobre competitividade internacional, o desempenho exportador de China, Estados Unidos, Alemanha, Rússia, Coreia do Sul, Japão e Brasil entre 2000 e 2011. Por meio da aplicação do modelo de Constant-Market-Share foi possível quantificar a participação da composição da pauta, da distribuição dos mercados de destino e da competitividade na variação das exportações desses países. Verificou-se que o crescimento da demanda internacional favoreceu as economias exportadoras de bens intensivos em recursos naturais e que os países que priorizaram mercados mais dinâmicos (principalmente a Ásia) tiveram resultado positivo no fator mercado. Os resultados para o efeito competitividade foram menos precisos, pois seus fatores determinantes têm impacto variável conforme o padrão de especialização de cada economia. / The main objective of this study was to evaluate the export performance of China, United States, Germany, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Brazil between 2000 and 2011, based on the recent literature on international competitiveness. By applying the Constant-Market-Share model, it was possible to quantify the contribution of the product composition, market distribution and competitiveness on countries’ exports growth. It was found that growing international demand favored the commodity exporters and also countries that have prioritized the most dynamic markets (especially Asia). The results for the competitiveness effect were less accurate because its determinant factors’ impact varies according to the specialization pattern of each economy.

As informações contábeis são de grande importância para o equilíbrio do relacionamento entre os stakeholders, sendo direcionadoras para a alocação de seus recursos. A auditoria independente, nesse contexto, surge como um importante mecanismo que contribui para proporcionar confiabilidade a essas informações, reduzindo o conflito de agência inerente a esse relacionamento, ao expressar uma opinião sobre a adequação das demonstrações contábeis às praticas de contabilidade. Diversas são as empresas de auditoria independente cadastradas na Comissão de Valores Mobiliários para realizar tais trabalhos no Brasil; no entanto, quatro empresas se destacam nesse rol: PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, KPMG e Ernst & Young. Essas quatro empresas são mundialmente conhecidas como Big Four. Até 2001, tal grupo era denominado Big Five e tinha como integrante a Arthur Andersen, que deixou de atuar no ramo a partir de 2002. Este trabalho buscou verificar a participação dessas empresas no Brasil no período de 1997 a 2008. Para tanto, as empresas auditadas foram classificadas pelo ramo de atividade, controle acionário e negociação em bolsa de valores, a fim de verificar a participação das empresas de auditoria sob diferentes aspectos. A amostra foi composta de 2.024 empresas constantes do banco de dados da FIPECAFI no período contemplado na pesquisa. Os resultados apontam que, na média do período, aproximadamente 80% dos ativos das grandes empresas atuantes no Brasil são auditados por empresas do grupo Big Four. Em 2008 a líder geral no Brasil foi a KPMG, responsável por auditar mais de 30% dos ativos da amostra. Outro objetivo deste trabalho foi detectar características das empresas auditadas que poderiam ser indicadores para a empresa escolher um auditor componente do grupo das maiores empresas de auditoria independente, focando-se na influência dos credores nessa decisão. Para esse objetivo foram coletados dados contábeis das empresas auditadas, além das informações não contábeis já utilizadas na primeira análise de participação das auditadas (ramo de atividade, controle acionário e negociação em bolsa de valores) e aplicado o teste estatístico de regressão logística. Os resultados não mostraram que a situação econômica e financeira da auditada influencia essa escolha, mas apontaram para a importância do controle acionário e do porte da auditada. / Accounting information have great importance for the balance of the relationship among stakeholders, and driving to the allocation of its resources. The independent audit, in this context, emerged as an important mechanism that helps to provide reliability of this information, reducing the agency conflict inherent in that relationship, to express an opinion on the adequacy of financial statements to accounting practices. There are several independent auditing firms registered at the Securities Commission to carry out such works in Brazil, however, four companies stand out in this list: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, KPMG and Ernst & Young. These four companies are worldwide known as \"Big Four\". Until 2001, this group was called \"Big Five\" and had as a member Arthur Andersen, which no longer operate in the sector since 2002. This study aimed to verify their participation in Brazil from 1997 to 2008. For this, the audited companies were classified by line of business, stock control and trading on stock exchanges in order to assess the role of audit firms under different aspects. The sample consisted of 2024 companies listed in the database FIPECAFI the period covered in the survey. The results show that the average period of approximately 80% of the assets of large companies operating in Brazil are audited by firms of the group \"Big Four\". In 2008 the overall leader in Brazil was KPMG, responsible for auditing more than 30% of assets in the sample. Another objective was to identify characteristics of the audited companies that could be indicators for the company to choose an auditor of the component group of the largest independent audit, focusing on the influence of creditors in that decision. For this purpose, data were collected from accounting firms audited in addition to the information which were already used in the prior market share analysis (line of business, ownership control and stock trading on stock exchanges) and applied logistic regression statistical test. The results have shown that the economic and financial situation do not have any influence in that choice, but pointed the importance of ownership control and audited firms size in that choice.

Este trabalho analisou o cenário em que está inserida a comercialização de bovinos para abate, no estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Para isto, foram utilizados dados obtidos através das Guias de Trânsito Animal (GTAs), entre os anos de 2010 (ano em que o sistema informatizado para GTAs foi implantado na Secretaria da Agricultura, Pecuária e Agronegócio - SEAPA) a 2013. Também foram utilizados dados da Declaração Anual de Rebanho, fornecidos pela SEAPA. Um dos diferenciais deste trabalho é esta fonte única, com documentos obrigatórios a todos que comercializam animais e o agrupamento por mesorregião geográfica das informações obtidas. Para o entendimento deste cenário, foram utilizadas como aporte teórico a Teoria da Localização, que considera a otimização da localização de uma firma, e a Organização Industrial, que através do Modelo E-C-D proporciona subsídios para caracterização da concentração em uma indústria. Os resultados mostraram que o número de animais abatidos é diferente entre as mesorregiões geográficas. Os matadouros-frigoríficos recebem animais para abate provenientes da mesorregião geográfica em que se estão localizados, mas também de outras mesorregiões do RS, em diferentes proporções. Nas análises, as mesorregiões geográficas Centro Oriental e Metropolitana destacaram-se pelo maior número de animais abatidos. No entanto, o rebanho nestas mesorregiões ainda não foi o suficiente para a demanda gerada pelo mercado consumidor, que está muito próximo devido as grandes cidades que compõem estas mesorregiões, como Santa Maria e Porto Alegre. A Mesorregião Sudoeste é a terceira que mais abateu animais. A quantidade abatida nesta mesorregião é composta por 74% de animais da própria mesorregião Sudoeste, porém, o seu rebanho foi uma importante fonte de animais para as demais mesorregiões. Neste cenário, o estado do RS apresentou mais de 60 mil ofertantes (pecuaristas) em 2013, e o número de demandantes (matadouros-frigoríficos) chegou a 459. O matadouro-frigorífico que mais abateu em 2010 perdeu participação de mercado até 2013, e frigoríficos menores conseguiram aumentar as suas participações, havendo uma tendência de maior equilíbrio entre as empresas. Não existe concentração na indústria de carne bovina, e as medidas de concentração analisadas mostram índices cada vez menores. / This study analyzed the scenario in which the marketing of cattle for slaughter is inserted in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. For this, it was used data of Animal Transit Guides (GTAs) for slaughter since 2010 - year that these guides were made available electronically by the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Agribusiness (SEAPA) - to 2013. It was also used data from Herd Annual Statement, supplied by SEAPA, which is one of the remarkable points of this paper, the unique and reliable source that was provided with a set of mandatory documents that all cattle sellers must have. Based on information that was founded, it was used the theory of location, considering the optimization of the location of a firm, and the Industrial Organization, through the S-C-P model, focusing on the structure that allows one to see if there was concentration in the industry. The Metropolitan ant Eastern Center Mesoregions are the ones that slaughter the most, having their own production as their raw material. However, these cattle are still not enough for the demand generated by the consumer market, which live close to these centers. The Southwest Mesoregion slaughters a great number of animals, with 74% of these slaughtered cattle coming from their own production and it is still an important source of animals for other Mesoregions. The number of suppliers (farmers) exceeded 60,000 in 2013, and the slaughter houses had reached 459. There is no concentration in the beef industry, and analyzed concentration measurements show dwindling numbers. The most important slaughterhouse in 2010 lost market by 2013, and smaller slaughterhouses were able to increase their holdings, with a trend towards greater balance between companies.

The major aim of this thesis is to analyze the impact of structural change of exports and technology level on the international competitiveness. In order to analyze international competitiveness, export market shares are used. The empirical analysis suggested in this thesis includes two steps. In the first step, constant market share analysis is conducted to understand the causes of changes in export market shares from one period to another and in the second step a difference generalized method of moments model is proposed for 44 manufacturing sectors, which are classified with respect to their technology intensities, over 2003- 2008 period. The results are highly sensitive to the technology intensity of sectors.

Underwriter need to participate in the process of new issue firms going public. Related reference about Taiwan's underwriter IPOs market share haven't appear. In this study, we expect to find out the relationship between Taiwan's underwriter IPOs market share and some related factors. Then offer issuer, underwriter and investor the conclusion as reference. The IPOs samples are selected during the period 1991 through 2000 in Taiwan. There are 475 newly issued firms in this period. We subtract some incomplete data samples and bank samples.There are 247 IPOs samples in our regression model. Although underwriter IPOs market share is less significantly impacted by IPOs offer price , results imply that when offer price is too low,this would damage issuer's benefit and lead to underwriter IPOs market share decrease. When offer price is too high, this would damage investor's benefit and just lightly lead to underwriter IPOs market share decrease. Results show that there is no industry specialization in Taiwan's underwriter industry. Although underwriter IPOs market share is less significantly impacted by IPOs one year performance,results imply that when underwriter market higher one year return IPOs, this would attract more investors and lead to underwriter IPOs market share increase.Results show that underwriter IPOs market share is significantly impacted by nderwriter's asset and age. The underwriter with larger asset and larger age gains more IPOs market share.