paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using …. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately … instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a …

This Paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and … on incentives to influence multinational firms’ location choices. …

reconcile the conflicting primal and dual estimates of productivity growth over the period. …

The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within …-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the nature …

productivity in the generation segment of the industry. Controlling explicitly for sources of price-heterogeneity across firms and …

We investigate the roles of productivity and the specificity of inputs for the international sourcing strategy of firms … which are part of a multinational network. We present a framework in which firms decide to import from a foreign independent … transaction. The dataset also provides information to estimate the firms' productivity and their intensity in relationship …

distribution costs in the export market, high and low productivity firms react differently to a depreciation . Whereas high … productivity firms optimally raise their markup rather than the volume they export, low productivity firms choose the opposite … aggregate impact of exchange rate movements. The presence of fixed costs to export means that only high productivity firms can …