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Rognes, Jon - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007

underleverantörer, så kallad business process outsourcing (BPO). Vi har studerat hur en sådan separering påverkar processer och … förutsättningar för kunskapsbildning och lärande i en organisation. Studien inleds med en översikt över BPO-området idag. Outsourcing …- och rationaliseringsprocess har outsourcing de senaste åren blivit ett allt vanligare alternativ. I detta projekt har vi …

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Cross-Border Mergers and Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment

Stepanok, Ignat - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2010

I present a model of international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), where FDI is comprised of greenfield FDI and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Working in a monopolistically competitive environment, merging firms do not reduce competition. Mergers are motivated by efficiency gains and...

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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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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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Learning How to Export

Segerstrom, Paul; Stepanok, Ignat - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2010

In this paper, we present a standard quality ladders endogenous growth model with one significant new assumption, that it takes time for firms to learn how to export. We show that this model without Melitz-type assumptions can account for all the evidence that the Melitz (2003) model was...

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Productivity Spillovers from FDI in the Uruguayan Manufacturing Sector

Kokko, Ari; Tansini, Ruben; Zejan, Mario - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1994

This paper examines intra-industry spillovers from FDI in Uruguayan manufacturing plants in 1988, to determine whether differences in the technology gap between locally- owned plants and foreign affiliates have any impact on the relation between local productivity and foreign presence. We find a...

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Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Mobility

Ellingsen, Tore - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1995

Empirical evidence shows that a weak currency attracts foreign direct investment. Current conventional wisdom says that all firms, regardless of their nationality, should be affected equally by changes in the exchange rate, and hence that there is no simple explanation for this regularity. I...

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