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Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing
Boehm, Christoph E. - 2019
U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479773
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Characteristics of Foreign-Owned Firms in British Manufacturing
Griffith, Rachel - 2003
This paper describes the characteristics of manufacturing establishments in Britain over the period 1980 to 1996, paying particular attention to differences between establishments of different ownership nationalities. The findings suggest that establishments that are always foreign-owned have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469126
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Corporation Law and the Shift toward Open Access in the Antebellum United States
Hilt, Eric - 2015
This paper analyses the general incorporation statutes for manufacturing firms adopted by the American states up to 1860. Prior to the enactment of a general law, a business could only incorporate by obtaining a special act of their state legislature; general statutes facilitated incorporation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457472
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The Spread of Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery 1870---2007
Bénétrix, Agustín S. - 2012
This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We find that although the roots of rapid peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460439
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Debt into Growth : How Sovereign Debt Accelerated the First Industrial Revolution
Ventura, Jaume - 2015
Why did the country that borrowed the most industrialize first? Earlier research has viewed the explosion of debt in 18th century Britain as either detrimental, or as neutral for economic growth. In this paper, we argue instead that Britain's borrowing boom was beneficial. The massive issuance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457387
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Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution
Heblich, Stephan; Redding, Stephen; Voth, Hans-Joachim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Did overseas slave-holding by Britons accelerate the Industrial Revolution? We provide theory and evidence on the contribution of slave wealth to Britain's growth prior to 1835. We compare areas of Britain with high and low exposure to the colonial plantation economy, using granular data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388807
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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan
Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Does the offshoring of production degrade or enhance the innovative capabilities of manufacturing firms? We contribute … products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … evidence of a second-order positive effect of offshoring on the levels of innovation--particularly product innovation--in other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616565
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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States
Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482590
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Contractual Versus Generic Outsourcing : The Role of Proximity
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005
We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions. Proximity expands the variety of products sourced through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466786
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Evaluating Estimates of Materials Offshoring from U.S. Manufacturing
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2012
When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I-O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460742