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Productivity gains from offshoring : an empirical analysis for the Netherlands

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Pattipeilohy, Christiaan - 2007 - This version: 19 November 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...

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Transaction management : value creation by reducing transaction costs

Butter, Frank A. G. den - 2010

In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain issplit up in more and more parts and the production of these parts is outsourced to thoseplaces in the world where production is relatively cheapest and most efficient. Itimplies that transaction costs,...

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SETS, arbitrage activity, and stock price dynamics

Taylor, Nicholas; Dijk, Dick van; Franses, Philip Hans; … - 1999

This paper provides an empirical description of the relationshipbetween the trading system operated by a stockexchange and the transaction costs faced by heterogeneous investors who use the exchange. Therecent introduction ofSETS in the London Stock Exchange provides an excellent opportunity...

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Financial globalization and foreign direct investment

Poelhekke, Steven - 2016

This chapter provides a broad overview of the upward trends in financial globalization and foreign direct investment and asks whether and how financial globalization is linked with the foreign direct investment decisions of non-financial multinational enterprises. Several potential links and...

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SETS, arbitrage activity, and stock price dynamics

Taylor, Nicholas (contributor) - 1999

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One-way arbitrage-based interest parity : an application of the Fletcher-Taylor approach in short-date markets

Chang, Rosita P.; Lee, Sang-Hyop; Reid, Sean F.; Rhee, … - 2002

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One-way arbitrage-based interest parity

Chang, Rosita P.; Lee, Sang-hyop; Reid, Sean F.; Rhee, … - 2002

forwardforeign exchange prices from interest parity forward prices. Second, the role oftransaction costs in one-way arbitrage …-based interest parity has not been examined.Applying the Fletcher and Taylor approach to one-way arbitrage-based interest parity … implied by one-way arbitrage, does not diminish therole of transaction costs; (ii) the varjances of the estimated deviations …

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Privatization, political risk and stock market development in emerging economies

Perotti, Enrico; Oijen, Pieter van - 1999

This paper investigates whether privatization in emerging economies has a significant indirect effect on local stock market development through the resolution of political risk. We argue that a sustained privatization program represents a major political test that gradually resolves uncertainty...

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Testing for volatility co-movement in bivariate stochastic volatility models

Chen, Jinghui; Kobayashi, Masahito; McAleer, Michael - 2017 - Revised: February 2017

The paper considers the problem of volatility co-movement, namely as to whether two financial returns have perfectly correlated common volatility process, in the framework of multivariate stochastic volatility models and proposes a test which checks the volatility co-movement. The proposed test...

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Does trade integration imply growth in Latin America? : evidence from a dynamic spatial spillover model

Blasques, F.; Gorgi, P.; Koopman, Siem Jan; Sampi, J. - 2023

To investigate the role of intra-regional trade integration on economic growth in Latin America, we develop a multilevel spatial production network model with time-varying parameters. The theoretical model is established for a multi-country and multi-sectoral economy. The reduced-form...

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