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Off-Shoring and Productivity Growth in the Italian Manufacturing Industries
Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - 2021
We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry ("narrow off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity...
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Competitiveness - A Comparison of China and Mexico
Nowak-Lehmann, Felicitas - 2007
US, Argentina, Japan, Korea, UK, Germany, and Spain) will be compared to Mexico's exports for a number of sectors over a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775853
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Cross-Country Relative Price Volatility : Effects of Market Structure
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Fujii, Eiji - 2021
Using annual data on nine manufacturing sectors of eighteen OECD countries, the article studies the implications of market structure for cross-country relative price variability. It is found that, in accordance with predictions from a standard markup pricing model, reductions in market...
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...
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Firm Innovation Under Import Competition from Low-Wage Countries
Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2017
In recent years, manufacturing firms in the United States have faced increasing import competition from low-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge in imports from China on innovation in the US...
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Welfare Policy in the Presence of Unionised Labour and Internationally Mobile Firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia - 2010
In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...
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Competition for FDI and Profit Shifting
Ma, Jie - 2015
When countries compete for the location of a new multinational plant they need to be aware of the profit shifting opportunities this new plant creates for the global multinational firm. By modelling explicitly the multinational's intra-firm transactions, we show that the home market advantage...
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The Ifo Industry Growth Accounting Database
Roehn, Oliver - 2007
In this paper we present a new database that allows deep industry-level growth accounting from 1991-2003. The database allows for the first complete analysis of the German industry performance drivers based on the contributions of 12 asset types in 52 different industries. The industry sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777641
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Sources of the German Productivity Demise - Tracing the Effects of Industry-Level ICT Investment
Eicher, Theo S. - 2007
accounting database that provides detailed industry-level investment information. While much attention has focused on the … reduction in German labor hours, our data show that Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) investment in Germany was … slowdown, but did not reverse it. After 2000, we find that a recovery in Non-ICT investment was offset by a widespread collapse …
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Policy Uncertainty and Manufacturing Investment : Evidence from U.S. State Elections
Shelton, Cameron A. - 2016
We estimate the effect of electorally induced policy uncertainty on investment in the manufacturing sector. Because …, and because the policies relevant to business investment vary systematically by party, uncertainty over the partisan … affiliation of the future governor is a source of political risk to firms considering business investment. More importantly, the …
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