intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … estimate knowledge spillovers through outsourcing relationships between German firms, measured by the number of those firms …

over the 1993-2003 period, firms with overconfident CEOs have greater return volatility, invest more in innovation, obtain …&D) expenditure. Overconfident managers only achieve greater innovation than non-overconfident managers in innovative industries …