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Endogenous TFP and Cross-Country Income Differences

Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Ripoll, Marla - EconWPA - 2005

This paper explores the quantitative implications of a class of endogenous growth models for cross-country income differences. These models exhibit international spillovers, no scale effects and conditional convergence, and thus they overcome some difficulties faced by the early generation of...

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Offshoring and Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

We study the short- and long-run implications of offshoring on innovation, technology adoption, wage and income …-abundant West to a skill-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress …. offshoring induces technical change with an ambiguous factor bias. When the initial level of offshoring is low, an increase in …

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To Offshore or Nearshore IT services? An investigation using transaction cost theory

Trampel, Julia - EconWPA - 2004

The phenomenon of offshoring, that is, the outsourcing of highly- qualified services into low wage countries was until … the controversial issue of the advantageousness of offshoring. The trend, which has been enforced by numerous consultants … validity. The following paper deals with the advantageousness of offshoring in the case of IT services. In order to detach …

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Horizontal Innovation in the Theory of Growth and Development

Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

We analyze recent contributions to growth theory based on the model of expanding variety of Romer (1990). In the first part, we present different versions of the benchmark linear model with imperfect competition. These include the "lab equipment" model, "labor-for-intermediates" and "directed...

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On the Smithian Origins of "New" Trade and Growth Theories

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 1997

Adam Smith (1776) is generally ignored as an international trade theorist in textbooks and surveys because of the common belief that he only confirmed the rule of absolute advantages to explain structure of foreign trade. On the other hand, many textbooks and surveys on growth theories simply...

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