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Productivity Growth, Knowledge Flows and Spillovers

Crespi, Gustavo; Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and TFP growth by using direct survey data on knowledge flows linked to firm-level TFP growth data. Our knowledge flow data correspond to the kind of information flows often argued, especially by policy-makers, as important, such as within the...

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From Sectoral To Functional Urban Specialisation

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001

We document and then develop a model explaining and relating changes in firms' organisation and in urban structure. Sharing of business services by headquarters and of sector-specific intermediates by production plants within a city reduces costs, while congestion increases with city size. A...

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Internationalization and Innovation of Firms: Evidence and Policy

Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom). We...

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Outsourcing and the shift from manufacturing to services

Berlingieri, Giuseppe - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Giuseppe Berlingieri looks at the structural transformation of the US economy over the past 60 years.

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Outsourcing and the shift from manufacturing to services

Berlingieri, Giuseppe - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Giuseppe Berlingieri looks at the structural transformation of the US economy over the past 60 years.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738421

The Determinants of Intrafirm Trade: Evidence from French Firms

Corcos, Gregory; Irac, Delphine M.; Mion, Giordano; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

How well does the theory of the firm explain the choice between intrafirm and arms' length trade? This paper uses firm-level import data from France to look into this question. We find support for three key predictions of property-rights theories of the multinational firm. Intrafirm imports are...

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Import Competition from and Outsourcing to China: A Curse or Blessing for Firms?

Mion, Giordano; Zhu, Linke - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

country of origin and distinguish between firm-level outsourcing of final versus intermediate goods. Results indicate that … China is different from both other low-wage and OECD countries. Industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing … Belgian firm survival, while firm-level outsourcing of finished goods to China even increased firm's probability of survival …

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Outsourcing and the Rise in Services

Berlingieri, Giuseppe - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of outsourcing on sectoral reallocation in the U.S. over the period 1948 … more than 90% of its output is an intermediate input to other firms, and it is where most of the service outsourcing … of the input-output structure, which is mostly due to professional and business services outsourcing, accounts for 36% of …

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The Determinants of Vertical Integration in Export Processing: Theory and Evidence from China

Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

outsourcing in export processing trade. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory export processing regimes in China, which …

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Productivity and the Sourcing Modes of Multinational Firms: Evidence from French Firm-Level Data

Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

assume higher fixed costs under outsourcing and a firm-specific production function. We use detailed French firm-level data …

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