offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …The economic effects of offshoring have been subject to extensive empirical analysis in the past, but many studies have …

on domestic productivity. The domestic R&D capital stock plays an active role in Western Europe while in the Eastern part … transition countries seem to gain more in terms of productivity from the international diffusion process than their Western …

The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West Germany. …

is increasing in its productivity, with the most productive multinationals choosing not to rely on a foreign partner at …

This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …

Abstract: This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using … the host country. Our results show that there are, on average, productivity benefits from inward FDI, although we can … identify a number of countries which, on aggregate, do not appear to benefit in terms of productivity. On the other hand, a …