土耳其钢铁工业发展现状及趋势

土耳其地理位置优越,交通运输便捷,人力资源丰富。在近几年的时间里,其国内政策法规日趋完善,汽车、能源、家电及建筑行业的需求带动了钢铁工业的快速发展,但受制于原料及电力供应的先天不足,加之全球钢铁产能过剩,市场行情不济等外部不利因素影响,未来,土耳其钢铁工业机遇与挑战并存。中国与土耳其同为发展中国家,也都是产钢大国,期望对土耳其钢铁业发展的介绍与分析,对我国钢铁业发展有所借鉴。     

一带一路战略下中国印尼钢铁国际产能合作研究

钢铁业是支撑我国经济发展的重要产业,但最近呈现出产能过剩的问题.“一带一路”战略的提出,某种程度上为钢铁业开展国际产能合作提供了契机,印度尼西亚(以下简称“印尼”)是重要的沿线国家,具有优越条件吸纳中国钢铁的过剩产能.本文介绍了钢铁业产能过剩的现状,印尼对钢铁的需求,分析了中国与印尼开展钢铁产能合作面临的挑战;基于这种情况,提出推进中印尼钢铁国际产能合作的建议与对策.     

美国钢铁工业的新动向

近两年,美国工业呈现一片复苏景象,典型的大烟囱工业——钢铁业也开始扭转多年颓势,萌发生机。本文以钢铁工业为例,从美国工业复苏的一个侧面,探讨美国钢铁工业的新动向,以及美国钢铁业对世界钢铁生产、投资和贸易的影响。     

我国钢铁工业发展循环经济研究

我国钢铁工业经过近十年的快速发展,在技术进步和结构调整等方面都取得了令人瞩目的进步,但与世界先进水平相比,我国钢铁业资源利用率低,能源消耗大,污染严重,受资源、能源、环境的制约越来越明显。     

广东钢铁工业面临的问题与抉择

广东省钢铁工业在未来５年如何进行 结构调整？如何适应中国加入 ＷＴＯ后给钢铁业带来的激烈竞争？这是 值得我们认真探讨的重要课题。 一、广东钢铁工业的现实基础 改革开放以来，广东的钢铁工业步 入一个较快的发展时期。全省粗钢产量 从１９７８年的３６万吨增加到１９９９年的３０３万 吨，增长近１０倍。两个骨干企业——广 钢和韶钢，“八五”以来实施了“精干主 体、分离辅助、分类经营、搞活企业”的 战略方针，分别成立了股份制公司和集 团公司，“广钢股份”和“韶钢松山”股票先后于１９９６年和１９９７年在上海证券交易所和深…     

我国钢铁工业盘活存量资产的思考

我国钢铁工业已进入大重组、大并购的新时代,重组浪潮风起云涌。要想做大做强我国钢铁业,必须走重组并购道路已是不争的事实,而重组的关键是要高度重视盘活存量资产。     

钢铁工业

一、景气综述 2002年是中国加入WTO的第一年,由于上一年国际市场消费低迷,钢材供严重大于求,年初业内人士普遍悲观的认为,入世后,国外钢材产品过量进口会对我国钢铁业产生冲击,国内钢材市场价格和全行业经济效益都会陷入困境。然而,2002年,中国钢铁工业出现令人惊喜的增长状况,据统计,2002年1～11月份,我国钢材表观     

从日本钢铁业的发展看中国钢铁业的重组——论中国钢铁业集中度的提升之路

鉴于我国钢铁工业集中度偏低带来的种种问题日益凸显,如何有效,高速,保质的提高我国钢铁业的集中度成为亟待解决的问题.而日本钢铁行业在提高市场集中度方面所做的探索和取得的显著成效,无疑可以在一些层面给我们提供启示,为我国钢铁行业更有效地提高集中度提供可借鉴的经验.本文将在总结日本钢铁业发展经验的基础上,结合我国钢铁业的现状,对如何提升我国钢铁业的集中废进行研究和探索.     

从日本钢铁业的发展看中国钢铁业的重组——论中国钢铁业集中度的提升之路

鉴于我国钢铁工业集中度偏低带来的种种问题日益凸显，如何有效，高速，保质的提高我国钢铁业的集中度成为亟待解决的问题。而日本钢铁行业在提高市场集中度方面所做的探索和取得的显著成效，无疑可以在一些层面给我们提供启示，为我国钢铁行业更有效地提高集中度提供可借鉴的经验。本文将在总结日本钢铁业发展经验的基础上，结合我国钢铁业的现状，对如何提升我国钢铁业的集中度进行研究和探索。     

广东钢铁工业面临的问题与抉择

广东省钢铁工业在未来5年如何进行结构调整?如何适应中国加入WTO后给钢铁业带来的激烈竞争?这是值得我们认真探讨的重要课题.……     

THE MICRO‐DYNAMICS OF CATCH‐UP IN INDONESIAN PAPER MANUFACTURING

In this study we analyze the micro‐dynamics of catch‐up in Indonesian paper manufacturing, using a two‐country plant‐level dataset for the period 1975–97. We apply data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure to what extent Indonesian paper mills are catching up with Finnish mills in terms of technical efficiency. Three questions are addressed: What is the distribution of Indonesian plant technical efficiency vis‐à‐vis the technological frontier? What is the role of entry, exit, and survival in Indonesia for catch‐up in the paper industry as a whole? In what ways do catching‐up plants in Indonesia differ from non‐catching‐up plants? We find that on average the Indonesian paper industry moved closer to the technological frontier during the 1990s. However, catch‐up has been a highly localized process in which only a few large establishments have achieved near best‐practice performance, while most other plants have stayed behind.     

Improving Connectivity in Indonesia: The Challenges of Better Infrastructure,Better Regulations,and Better Coordination

This paper presents and discusses the main challenges that an archipelago like Indonesia is facing in improving its connectivity. Distinguishing between intra‐island, inter‐island, and international connectivity is essential in order to understand the nature of the challenges and causes behind the bottlenecks. High domestic shipping costs are identified as one key challenge. The Government of Indonesia has identified improved connectivity as a key issue in promoting economic growth, especially in the manufacturing sector, now that Indonesia can no longer rely on commodities as a driver of growth. Better infrastructure, regulations, and coordination among stakeholders are crucial components in promoting improved connectivity for manufacturing growth. Promoting investment in infrastructure is necessary, including both hard and soft infrastructure. However, Indonesian experience highlights that without regulatory reform and improved policy coordination, infrastructure investment will continue to lag behind. There is a need for an improved and empowered governance structure to turn investment plans into reality.     

Has regulatory reform had any impact on bank efficiency in Indonesia? A two-stage analysis

More than a decade following the severe economic crisis 1997, Indonesia has undergone major regulatory changes in its banking industry. This article examines the impact of these regulatory changes on the relative technical efficiency (TE) of the Indonesian banking industry employing data envelopment analysis (DEA) and censored Tobit regression model. Additionally, the bootstrap approach of Simar and Wilson is employed to provide statistical properties to the DEA efficiency score. The findings show that the industry on average is inefficient over the period of analysis. Also, state-owned and foreign-owned banks are found to be more efficient than any other group of banks. Finally, the impact of regulatory reforms is generally positive and statistically significant.     

Foreign investment regulation and firm productivity: Granular evidence from Indonesia

When regulating foreign direct investment (FDI), countries often face a trade-off between pursuing national policy interests and suffering efficiency losses due to FDI restrictions. We demonstrate the presence of this trade-off in the case of a protectionist FDI policy in Indonesia. Using a yearly census of Indonesian manufacturing firms from 2000 to 2015, we link product-level changes in binding FDI regulation due to major regulatory tightening to changes in firm-level productivity. Controlling for an extensive set of fixed effects as well as potential political economy drivers of regulation, we show that a tightening of the regulatory environment was successful in reducing foreign capital reliance among regulated firms, and led to increases in FDI among non-regulated firms producing the same product. Despite compensating increases in domestic capital, regulated firms experienced relative productivity losses. This points towards either a less efficient allocation of domestic capital or a general inferiority of domestic capital as compared to foreign investments.     

The effects of Japanese economic performance on Indonesia

This paper assesses how Japanese economic performance affects the Indonesian economy for the 1988 to 2004 period. The empirical evidence provided here suggests that Japanese growth appreciates the local currency in real terms, decreases the inflation and increases growth. As a side issue, we also documented that real exchange rate depreciation accelerates inflation and decreases growth in Indonesia.     

Trade liberalization and the Mexican steel industry

The impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the competitive positions of Mexican and U.S. steel producers is investigated employing a translog cost function with four inputs (capital, labor, domestic intermediate goods, and foreign intermediate goods) to examine scale characteristics and input substitution in Mexican steel production. Results are consistent with diseconomies of scale at high levels of output and with substitute relationships between all input pairs except labor and domestic intermediate goods. Thus, output growth will likely result in cost reductions for Mexican producers only if the industry reaps significant benefits from substitution of foreign inputs for domestic. Recent increases in Mexico's imports of finished steel have much exceeded those of steel industry inputs, and it therefore does not seem likely that a Mexican cost advantage over steel producers in the United States will soon emerge as a result of economies of scale.     

Survey of the Industrial Concentration and Price-cost Margin of the Indonesian Manufacturing Industry

This research investigates trends and conditional convergence of industrial concentration and price-cost margin in 410 subsectors of the Indonesian manufacturing industry. This study uses firm (establishment) level survey data provided by the Indonesian Bureau of Central Statistics (BPS) in the period 1980–2011. The conditional convergence model is employed using four-year intervals. This research finds that the industrial concentration and price-cost margin are relatively high for most of the subsectors. Moreover, the Indonesian manufacturing industry is classified as a tight oligopoly structure. This research also reveals that the industrial concentration and price-cost margin for all subsectors tend to converge to the same value in the long run. The competition law supports the convergence of the industrial concentration and price-cost margin for the subsectors. This research concludes that the higher industrial concentration can create a higher market power in the industry.     

Economic and environmental impacts of trade liberalization: The case of Indonesia

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the environmental impacts of trade liberalization. This paper provides further discourse in this area with a study on Indonesia and its trade agreements with Japan (IJEPA) and ASEAN (AFTA). A static global CGE model, known as the Global Trade Analysis Project, was used to project the Indonesian economy to the year 2022, with and without tariff reforms agreed under the agreements. Environmental impacts are assessed using different pollution indicators—air, water and waste. The study suggests that Indonesia would grow rapidly over the period considered with a large deterioration in its environment. Following these, however, the agreements only have a marginal positive impact on Indonesia's output but with a noticeable increase in trade flows and signs of trade diversion. Overall AFTA has a greater impact on the Indonesian economy compared to IJEPA. Similarly, the impact of trade liberalization on the environment is marginal. On the whole, tariff reform is inducing air pollution and reducing water pollution. In conclusion, the study suggests that Indonesia's participation in the AFTA and IJEPA agreements is not likely to bring drastic changes to her economic and environmental performance.     

Assessment of technological appropriateness: The case of Indonesian rural development

It is commonly recognized at the present that technological appropriateness is not an intrinsic quality of any technology, but it derived from the surroundings (technological as well as sociocultural, politicolegal, economic, and environmental) in which it is to be utilized and the specific purpose of its application. On this basis, this paper presents two case studies for the selection of appropriate technologies for rural development in Indonesia. The first case deals with the problem of identifying a “set of appropriate technologies” to be promoted for accelerated rural development. The second case deals with the problem of selecting the “most appropriate one” among available technologies of one kind. The assessment exercises are carried out using existing methodologies and inputs (such as national priorities, assessment factors, and decision weights) from Indonesian nationals. It is shown that the analysis can provide useful guidelines for science and technology policy planning in developing countries.     

Political Economy and Islamic Politics: Insights from the Indonesian Case

It is argued in this study that the trajectory of Islamic politics in Indonesia has been shaped within larger processes of state formation and socio-economic and political changes associated with the advance of the market economy and the pressures of globalisation. It incorporates the Indonesian case into a vast and well-developed debate that has hitherto focused on North Africa and the Middle East. As such it offers a distinct interpretation that goes beyond the prevailing understanding of Islamic politics in Indonesia as the product of conflicts over ideas, doctrine or culture or the institutional requisites of authoritarianism or democracy. Specifically, it is proposed that Islamic politics has been underpinned variously by the conservatism of small propertied interests, the populism of marginalised urban and small town middle classes and the ambitions of the upper middle classes and business. While these dynamics are found across much of the Muslim world, the political outcomes have been diverse. We show that the Indonesian trajectory has been greatly influenced by the failure of Islamic politics to establish effective cross-class alliances behind the banners of Islam and the ability of the secular state to effectively establish its own apparatus of populist politics.