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The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing

Mankiw, N. Gregory; Swagel, Phillip - American Enterprise Institute - 2009

offshoring and international trade. …

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …. Third, we use the model to draw systematic predictions about the effects of immigration and offshoring on native workers and …

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Heterogeneous Firms and Trade

Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry...

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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics. …

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The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change

Steinwender, Claudia - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access to export markets, other papers stress the...

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Spatial Frictions

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...

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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

We analyze the causal impact of competition on managerial quality (and hospital performance). To address the endogeneity of market structure we analyze the English public hospital sector where entry and exit are controlled by the central government. Because closing hospitals in areas where the...

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How Special is the Special Relationship? Using the Impact of US R&D Spillovers on UK Firms as a Test of Technology Sourcing

Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

How much does US-based R&D benefit other countries and through what mechanisms? We test the "technologysourcing" hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improvehome country productivity. Using panels of UK and US firms matched to patent data we...

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Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

Bloom, Nicholas; Schankerman, Mark; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers": a positive effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and...

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