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Productivity and the sourcing modes of multinational firms: evidence from French firm-level data

Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We investigate the role of a firm’s total factor productivity in its decision to import from their affiliates rather than from independent input suppliers. We propose a slightly modified version of the Antràs and Helpman (2004) model. We assume higher fixed costs under outsourcing and a...

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Intra-industry foreign direct investment

Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs between rich...

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Offshoring: general equilibrium effects on wages, production and trade

Baldwin, Richard E.; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

A simple model of offshoring is used to integrate the complex gallery of results that exist in the theoretical … offshoring/fragmentation literature. The paper depicts offshoring as ‘shadow migration’ and shows that this allows … conditions are provided). We show that offshoring requires modification of the four HO theorems, so econometricians who ignore …

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Foreign Ownership and Productivity: New Evidence from the Service Sector and the R&D Lab

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Simpson, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two issues neglected in the existing literature – the role of multinationals in service sectors and the importance of R&D activity conducted by foreign multinationals. We review...

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From periphery to core: economic adjustments to high speed rail

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Feddersen, Arne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper presents evidence that high speed rail systems, by bringing economic agents closer together, sustainably promote economic activity within regions that enjoy an increase in accessibility. Our results on the one hand confirm expectations that have led to huge public investments into...

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Reflections on the nature and policy implications of planning restrictions on housing supply. Discussion of 'Planning policy, planning practice, and housing supply' by Kate Barker

Cheshire, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Planning is about other things as well, but it is fundamentally an economic activity. It allocates a scarce resource but independently of prices or any market information. In analysing the effects this allocative mechanism has on housing supply (or, indeed, the supply of buildings for any given...

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Assessing the effects of local taxation using microgeographic data

Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We study the impact of local taxation on the location and growth of firms. Our empirical methodology pairs establishments across jurisdictional boundaries to estimate the impact of taxation. Our approach improves on existing work as it corrects for unobserved establishment heterogeneity, for...

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Historic amenities, income and sorting of households

Koster, Hans R. A.; Rietveld, Piet; Van Ommeren, Jos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We test the impact of historic amenities on house prices and sorting of households within cities. Conservation area boundaries enable us to employ a semiparametric regression-discontinuity approach to measure the impact of historic amenities. The approach allows for household-specific...

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The effect of the UK stamp duty land tax on household mobility

Hilber, Christian A. L.; Lyytikainen, Teemu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

We estimate the effect of the UK Stamp Duty Land Tax on household mobility using micro data. Exploiting a discontinuity in the tax schedule as a quasi-experimental setting, we isolate the impact of the stamp duty from other determinants of mobility. Our empirical strategy essentially compares...

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The political economy of housing supply: homeowners, workers, and voters

Ortalo-Magné, François; Prat, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Equilibrium of the housing market depends on a complex set of interactions between: (1) individual location decisions; (2) individual housing investment; (3) collective decisions on urban growth. We embed these three elements in a model of a dynamic economy with two sources of friction:...

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