An application of an entropy approach to the Turkish manufacturing industry
Author
Altaban, Şule
Advisor
Güvenen, Orhan
Date
1993Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
ThesisItem Usage Stats
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Abstract
This study concerns an application of concentration measurement for
the Turkish Manufacturing Industry using information theory. Theil's
(1971) disaggregation of entropy is converted to handle the whole
manufacturing industry in order to see the competitive and
monopolistic trends. The between-group variation and within-group
variation values are computed for three yearly period between 1989
and 1991 using sales figures. These values give the intersectoral and
inter-firm differentiations for the manufacturing industry. The study
concludes that the distribution for sales figures within the sector
displays a less equal pattern than the intersectoral analysis,
although the general relative entropy values shows only a tendency to
equal shares for the Turkish Manufacturing Industry.
Keywords
Concentrationinformation theory
entropy
between-group variation
within-group variation
intersectoral differentiation
inter-firm differention
relative entropy