The report analyses the impacts of globalization on competitiveness of national economies, industries and firms. The …

productivity and wage growth are higher for newly founded MNEs than for national rms. Employment growth is superior before …

mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …

. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …

mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …

this model we identify a formal relationship between international trade, productivity, and wages. We then examine the … trivariate relationship between trade, growth in total factor productivity (TFP), and the skill premium in a vector …

A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the … home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …

prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … evidence that trade openness exerts a competitive effect, with prices and markups falling and productivity rising. Consistent …

We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …