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Productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms: is co-location always a plus?

Mariotti, Sergio; Mutinelli, Marco; Nicolini, Marcella; … - 2011

The paper analyses productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms. Using a database on foreign MNEs in Italy, our results reveal that local firms do benefit from the presence of foreign MNEs, and the effect is higher when local and foreign firms in manufacturing...

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Firm heterogeneity, contract enforcement, and the industry dynamics of offshoring

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Naghavi, Alireza - 2009

We develop an endogenous growth model to study the long run consequences of offshoring with firm heterogeneity and … incomplete contracts. In so doing, we model offshoring as the geographical fragmentation of a firm's production chain between a … possibility of offshoring has favorable implications for economic growth. Yet, offshoring induced by a higher bargaining power of …

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Multiproduct multinationals and the quality of innovation

Bakhtiari, Sasan; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - 2013

This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed by firms is fundamental and the extent to which the...

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Productivity gains and spillovers from offshoring

Michel, Bernhard - 2011

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Transboundary pollution, R&D spillovers and international trade

Ben Youssef, Slim - 2003

We consider a symmetric three-stage game played by a pair of regulator-firm hierarchies to capture the scale and technology effects. Each firm produces one good sold on the market. The production process generates pollution characterized by a fixed emission/output ratio, and cross-borders. Firms...

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Unbundling technology adoption and tfp at the firm level : do intangibles matter?

Battisti, Michele; Belloc, Filippo; Del Gatto, Massimo - 2012

We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We disentangle between tfp and technology adoption, while available studies so far have considered only a notion of productivity conflating the two effects. To this aim, we estimate...

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Parallel imports and innovation in an emerging economy

Mantovani, Andrea; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010

This paper studies the consequences of parallel import (PI) on process innovation of firms heterogeneous in their production technology. In an international setting where foreign markets differ with respect to their intellectual property rights regime, a move by a technologically inferior firm...

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Production outsourcing, organizational governance and firm's technological performance : evidence from Italy

Antonietti, Roberto (contributor); … - 2007

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Innovation (and upgrading) in the automobile industry : the case of India

Ray, Saon; Miglani, Smita - 2016

This paper focuses on the automobile industry and examines the nature of global value chains in it with reference to the case of India. The aim is to explore the relation between lead firms, particularly MNCs, and the extent to they have contributed to the development of the Indian automobile...

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Environmental innovations, local networks and internationalization

Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro - 2011

This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region,...

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