home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs …, using a recent theory on trade in tasks. A production function is estimated for the Netherlands for the period 1972-2001. It … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …

productivity and productivity in innovative (new to the market) sales. Using data on a large sample of Dutch innovating firms in … productivity growth in 1996-1998. The results confirm a major heterogeneity in the rationales and goals of R&D cooperation …. Competitor and supplier cooperation focus on incremental innovations, improving the productivity performance of firms. University …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

During the last decades, the growth of trade between China and the Netherlands has been larger than the increase in …