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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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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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Production Offshoring and the Skill Composition of Italian Manufacturing Firms: A Counterfactual Analysis

Antonietti, Roberto; Antonioli, Davide - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

, although weak, skill bias effect of production offshoring on the labor-force composition of Italian manufacturing: in …

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Multiproduct Multinationals and the Quality of Innovation

Bakhtiari, Sasan; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This research sheds light on the role of multinational production on the type of innovation performed by firms. We construct matched firm-patent data to measure the scope of innovation, that is the extent to which the output of R&D can be spread across different product lines. We focus on two...

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Intellectual Property Rights and Entry into a Foreign Market: FDI vs. Joint Ventures

Naghavi, Alireza; Leahy, Dermot - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

We study the effect of the intellectual property rights (IPR) regime of a host country (South) on a multinational's decision between serving a market via greenfield foreign direct investment to avoid the exposure of its technology or entering a joint venture (JV) with a local firm, which allows...

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(Self-) Enforcement of Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism Contracts

Janssen, Josef - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

International climate protection investments (Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism projects) are burdened with problems of contract enforcement, which prevent the realisation of efficiency gains associated with these investments. The paper analyses this problem from the...

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Can R&D-Inducing Green Tariffs Replace International Environmental Regulations?

Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper investigates the link between trade and environment by exploring the effects of green tariffs on the location of firms, innovation and the environment. It shows that tariffs levied on polluting goods could result in less global pollution than harmonization of environmental standards...

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International Sourcing, Product Complexity and Intellectual Property Rights

Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

In this paper, we propose the technological complexity of a product and the level of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) protection to be the co-determinants of the mode through which multinational firms purchase their goods. We study the choice between intra-firm trade and outsourcing given...

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Unilateral Climate Policy and Foreign Direct Investment with Firm and Country Heterogeneity

Sanna-Randaccio, Francesca; Sestini, Roberta; Tarola, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

We contribute to the debate on the impact of unilateral climate policy with a two-country two-firm international oligopoly model accounting for endogenous plant location and heterogeneity in both country size and firm’s emissions technology. Our results suggest that, if the carbon price...

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Farmland Investments in Africa: What’s the Deal?

Corato, Luca Di; Hess, Sebastian - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Large-scale foreign investments in African farmland are rising and may contribute to agricultural productivity growth and economic development. However, host countries sometimes have to wait longer for the economic benefits to arrive than initially expected. In this respect, the timing of...

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