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Firm Heterogeneity, Contract Enforcement, and the Industry Dynamics of Offshoring

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We develop an endogenous growth model to study the long run consequences of offshoring with firm heterogeneity and … incomplete contracts. In so doing, we model offshoring as the geographical fragmentation of a firm’s production chain between a … possibility of offshoring has favorable implications for economic growth. Yet, offshoring induced by a higher bargaining power of …

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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms: Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance

Altomonte, Carlo; Rungi, Armando - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

We explore the nature of Business Groups, that is network-like forms of hierarchical organization between legally autonomous firms spanning both within and across national borders. Exploiting a unique dataset of 270,474 headquarters controlling more than 1,500,000 (domestic and foreign)...

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Polluters and Abaters

Nimubona, Alain-Désiré; Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

abatement outsourcing are highlighted, qualifications and refinements of the theory of vertical integration are then proposed …

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … model to jointly analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of offshoring and of the costs of immigrating to the U …

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Optimal Information Transmission in Organizations: Search and Congestion

Cabrales, Antonio; Arenas, Àlex; Díaz-Guilera, Albert; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

We propose a stylized model of a problem-solving organization whose internal communication structure is given by a fixed network. Problems arrive randomly anywhere in this network and must find their way to their respective “specialized solvers” by relying on local information alone. The...

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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of many techno organisational innovation and networking...

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Social Capital, R&D and Industrial Districts

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Mancinelli, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

The main idea behind this paper is that social capital is not, as generally suggested by the socio-economic literature, an individual attitude towards something which does not imply privately appropriable economic benefits. Actually, SC might and should be interpreted as a public component of an...

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Leadership Cycles

Denicolò, Vincenzo; Zanchettin, Piercarlo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We study a quality-ladder model of endogenous growth that produces stochastic leadership cycles. Over a cycle, industry leaders can innovate several successive times in the same industry, gradually increasing the magnitude of their technological lead before being replaced by a new entrant....

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R&D in Cleaner Technology and International Trade

Youssef, Slim Ben - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

We consider a dynamic three-stage game played by two regulator-firm hierarchies to capture the scale and technological effects of opening markets to international trade. Each firm produces one good sold on the market. Firms can invest in R&D in order to lower their fixed emission/output ratio...

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Environmentally-Oriented Innovative Strategies and Firm Performances in Services. Micro-Evidence from Italy

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

This paper aims at analysing the role of the environment in innovative strategies based on firm economic performance indicators such as employment, turnover, and labour productivity growth. We exploit a unique dataset of 773 Italian service firms with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995...

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