In this paper, we explore empirically the aggregate patterns of offshoring (or outsourcing) of tasks, which we call “functionsâ€, within a country, and link these patterns to those of offshoring across countries, thereby bridging the existing gap in the literature between intra- and...

Although it is well known that Markov process theory, frequently applied in the literature on income convergence, imposes some very restrictive assumptions upon the data generating process, these assumptions have generally been taken for granted so far. The present paper proposes, resp. recalls...

Several recent econometric investigations found externalities related to the density of economic activity to account for one fifth to one half of total regional variations in average labor productivity in the U.S. and big European countries, including Germany. The present paper shows for German...