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Productivity Gains from Offshoring: an Empirical Analysis for the Netherlands
Butter, Frank A.G. den; Pattipeilohy, Christiaan - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs, using a recent theory on trade in tasks. A production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144504
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Spurious Regression, Cointegration, and Near Cointegration: A Unifying Approach
Haldrup, Niels; Jansson, Michael - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
on this representation, a notion of near cointegration is proposed and three separate applications of the model of near … cointegration are provided. As a first application, we give analytical corroboration of the conjecture that the finite sample … coefficient. Hence, the notion of near cointegration helps to bridge the gap between the polar cases of spurious regression and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137044
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Transaction Management: Value Creation by Reducing Transaction Costs
Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain is
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838633
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Skill Intensity in Foreign Trade and Economic Growth
Worz, Julia - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita income growth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-run growth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136942
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Financial Sector Competition, Service Trade, and Growth
Francois, Joseph F.; Eschenbach, Felix - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
We explore dynamic linkages between financial/banking sector openness, financial sector competition, and growth. We first develop an analytical model, highlighting links between long-run economic performance and services trade, through scale economies and market and cost structures in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137289
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Maintenance Costs, Obsolescence, and Endogenous Growth
Berden, Koen G.; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Institute - 2001
We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costs in the endogenous growth model of expanding product varieties. This contrasts with the existing literature, which ignores maintenance costs and uses the model of quality improvements to describe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137353
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Trade in Financial Services: Procompetitive Effects and Growth Performance
Francois, Joseph F.; Schuknecht, Lutger - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
In this paper we explore linkages between financial services trade and growth. We offer a formalization of the argument that trade, through the fostering of financial market integration, may yield important long-run effects related to increased competition. The relationships formalized here link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504949
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Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Convergence
Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level for 14 OECD countries, covering the period 1970-1997. A fã-convergence analysis shows that the development of cross-country variation in productivity performance depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795576
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Growth Effects of Fiscal Policies - A Comparative Analysis in a Multi-Country Context
Brons, Martijn; Groot, Henri L.F.M. de; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economic growth are complex and manifold. In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the various economic insights that are currently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136911
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Decoupling Economic Growth and Energy Use. An Empirical Cross-Country Analysis for 10 Manufacturing Sectors
Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137179