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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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European Integration and Geographical Concentration of Swedish Multinationals

Mathä, Thomas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1999

This paper investigates whether European integration has an effect on the geographical concentration of Swedish multinationals' production inside the European Union. The results indicate that agglomeration and dispersion forces are present, and that the relative strength of these forces has been...

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Proximity-Concentration versus Factor Proportion Explanation: The Case of Swedish Multinationals in the EU

Mathä, Thomas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000

Both proximity-concentration trade-off and factor proportions explanations have been forwarded to explain the existence of multinational enterprises. This paper analyses to what extent these different explanations are supported empirically, in making a first attempt to distinguish explicitly...

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The Single European Market, Swedish Investment Liberalisation, and Horizontal and Vertical Multinationals

Mathä, Thomas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001

This paper analyses the effects of the Single European Market and Swedish Investment liberalisation on the structure of Swedish multinationals with their EU affiliates. The empirical results suggest that the determinants associated with horizontal and vertical multinationals have become...

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Location of R&D and High-Tech Production by Vertically Integrated Multinationals

Ekholm, Karolina; Hakkala, Katariina - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2003

We develop a two-country general equilibrium model where firms make separate choices about the location of R&D and high-tech production. There are two agglomeration forces: R&D spillovers and backward linkages associated with high-tech production. The latter tends to attract production to the...

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Rethinking the Effects of Financial Liberalization

Broner, Fernando; Ventura, Jaume - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

During the last few decades, many emerging markets have lifted restrictions on cross-border financial transactions. The conventional view was that this would allow these countries to: (i) receive capital in flows from advanced countries that would finance higher investment and growth; (ii)...

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Financial Reforms and Capital Flows: Insights from General Equilibrium

Martin, Alberto; Ventura, Jaume - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

As a result of debt enforcement problems, many high-productivity firms in emerging economies are unable to pledge enough future profits to their creditors and this constrains the financing they can raise. Many have argued that, by relaxing these credit constraints, reforms that strengthen...

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The curse of aid

Djankov, Simeon; Montalvo, José G.; Reynal-Querol, Marta - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

Foreign aid provides a windfall of resources to recipient countries and may result in the same rent seeking behavior as documented in the "curse of natural resources" literature. In this paper we discuss this effect and document its magnitude. Using data for 108 recipient countries in the period...

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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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