Issue 3

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March 1980
Articles: 

Price Expectations and their Role in the Analysis of the UK Department of Industry's Investment Intentions Inquiries

 This paper reports recent developments in the generation of forecasts of fixed capital expenditure from the results of the regular investment intentions inquiries conducted by the UK Department

Factors Affecting Capital Retirement: Evidence from Capacity Decommissioning Plans in a Publicly Owned Corporation

 THIS paper examines the determinants of short-term variations in the aggre- gate of capital retirement, drawing upon information from the capacity decommissioning programmes in a publicly owned

Measuring Industrial Stagnation: The Case of the US Railroads

 RAILROADS in general, and those of the United States in particular, have been the subject of considerable controversy and debate for many years.

The Rate Structure of Unit Coal Trains in the 1970s

 IN a recent paper, Zimmerman [I7] has argued that developments in the electrical-utility energy markets during the 1970S should have caused a substantial increase in unit-train coal rates.

Minimum Efficient Size and Seller Concentration: An Empirical Problem

 THIS paper concerns the empirical relationship between the concentration of sellers in any market and the so-called minimum efficient scale of produc- tion (MEP).

Profitability, Risk, and the Separation of Ownership from Control

 IT has frequently been hypothesized that the separation of corporate owner- ship from control could have an important influence on both profits and risk, ever since the phenomenon was first docu

Industrial Structure and the Economic Problems of Industry in a Centrally Planned Economy: The Polish Case

 CURRENTLY the suggestion made in the UK that our industrial structure may be partly responsible for our economic difficulties seems to be gaining accept- ance.

A Problem of Measurement, from Plants to Enterprises in the Analysis of Diversification: A Note

 SCHOLARS conducting research on diversification have generally not had access to accurate data on the actual vector of outputs, by industry, of an enterprise.1 Instead, researchers have had to a