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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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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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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Skill Upgrading Evidence from Argentina

Bustos, Paula - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

The integration of developing countries in the world economy during the last three decades has often coincided with increases in the skill premium. These trends are at odds the predictions of the Heckscher-Ohlin trade model where trade opening in skill-scarce developing countries leads to a...

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Outward FDI and Home Country Exports: Japan, the United States, and Sweden

Lipsey, Robert E.; Ramstetter, Eric; Blomström, Magnus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent. A firm that produces a million Yen more in a region also tends to export about a million yen more to that region, given the...

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Technology Sourcing in Swedish MNEs and SMEs: Evidence from Patent Data

Globerman, Steven; Kokko, Ari; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1996

Using data from Swedish patent applications, this paper examines the pattern of foreign technology sourcing in Swedish multinational and non-multinational firms. The results show that both types of firms are more likely to make references to countries with large patent stocks and to countries...

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