作者: Diana M. Burton , Irma A. Gomez , H. Alan Love
关键词: Manufacturing 、 Pulp and paper industry 、 Economics 、 Environmental regulation 、 Variable (computer science) 、 Structure (mathematical logic) 、 Capital expenditure 、 Production (economics) 、 Markov chain
摘要: Environmental regulations are hypothesized to have an impact on industry structure in manufacturing industries. A nonstationary Markov chain analysis shows that the capital expenditures required meet environmental is a statistically significant variable explaining increasing concentration of production capacity pulp and paper industry.