Open AccessThe Value Of The Dollar, And other Factors Affecting The U.S. Manufacturing Sector: The Situation In The Mid-1980s
Author(s) -
Edward T. Gullason
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of applied business research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2157-8834
pISSN - 0892-7626
DOI - 10.19030/jabr.v6i4.6280
Subject(s) - liberian dollar , manufacturing sector , value (mathematics) , manufacturing , affect (linguistics) , economics , business , marketing , labour economics , mathematics , statistics , finance , psychology , communication
The purpose of this paper is examine the major variables which affect the level of manufacturing output for each of 202-digit SIC industries, and for the U.S. manufacturing sector as a whole, as well as to estimate the sizes of these effects. By focusing on the situation in 1985, one is able to estimate the effect of the ten strong dollar on the level of U.S. manufacturing output.