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Production offshoring and investment by Japanese firms
Kang, Joong Shik; Piao, Shi - 2015
operating mainly in domestic markets. On the back of a trend increase in production offshoring, investment by large companies …
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Technological changes, offshoring, and the labor share
Lian, Weicheng - 2019
Existing studies on the downward trend in the labor share of income mostly focus on changes within individual countries. I document, however, that half of the global decline in the labor share of income can be traced to the relocation of activities between countries. I develop a two-country...
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Offshore Banking : An Analysis of Micro- and Macro-Prudential Issues
Errico, Luca - 1999
The paper takes a closer look at offshore banking—a pervasive practice that has played a role in recent crises. Offshore banking is an increasingly attractive alternative to the sometimes heavily regulated financial markets of emerging economies. From a microeconomic vantage point, offshore...
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Globalization and Relocation in a Vertically Differentiated Industry
Grilo, Isabel - 1998
This paper uses a vertical differentiation duopoly framework to analyze firms’ relocation decisions, when the removal of trade barriers or restrictions on capital outflows or inflows (“globalization”) allows them to serve the domestic market through foreign plants in low-wage countries....
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Service offshoring, Productivity, and Employment : Evidence From the United States
Amiti, Mary - 2005
This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000 …, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring … during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller …
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Offshore currency markets : non-deliverable forwards (NDFs) in Asia
Schmittmann, Jochen Markus; Teng, Chua Han - 2020
Non-deliverable forward (NDF) markets in many Asian emerging market currencies are large, rapidly growing, and often exceed onshore markets in transaction volume. NDFs tend to price significant depreciation during market stress episodes including COVID-19. Spillovers from NDFs to onshore markets...
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Structural reforms and productivity growth in emerging market and developing economies
Dabla-Norris, Era; Ho, Giang; Kyobe, Annette - 2016
This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...
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Identifying service market reform priorities in Italy
Belhocine, Nazim; Garcia-Macia, Daniel - 2020
Italy's labor productivity in market services has declined since 2000, underperforming manufacturing and peer European countries, especially in strongly regulated sectors. A model of monopolistic competition is used to identify which service sectors would benefit more from removing entry and/or...
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Deepening the EU's single market for services
Ebeke, Christian; Frie, Jan-Martin; Rabier, Louise - 2019
The services sector is increasingly important for the euro area economy, but productivity growth in the sector has stalled over the past two decades. Remaining barriers to cross-border trade in services within the EU Single Market contribute to this weak performance. Our empirical analysis...
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The welfare implications of services liberalization in a developing country : evidence from Tunisia
Jouini, Nizar; Rebei, Nooman - 2013
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