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This paper provides cross-country firm-level evidence on productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI), separately for greenfield FDI and crossborder mergers and acquisitions (M&As). The granularity of bilateral sector-level FDI datasets allows for addressing possible endogeneity...
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This paper analyses the impact of unilateral climate policy on firms’ international location strategies in emission-intensive sectors, when countries differ in terms of market size. The cases of partial and total relocation via foreign direct investment are separately considered. A simple...
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … model to jointly analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of offshoring and of the costs of immigrating to the U …
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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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This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between patterns of integration in global value chains (GVCs), the ‘quality’ of such integration in terms of technological capabilities and the structure of employment in European countries and sectors. We study employment shares in...
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international production networks, on which growth in manufacturing has become increasingly dependent in the contemporary world …
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Export is an important contributor to growth with numerous direct and indirect macroeconomic benefits. Moreover, firms engaged in exporting activity tend to have superior characteristics compared to their non-exporting peers. The paper is focused on identifying reasons behind this superiority of...
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