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This study exploits the installation-level inclusion criteria of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to investigate the policy's causal effect on outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions of German multinational firms. Difference-in-differences with bias-corrected...
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced business services (ABSs), referred to here as the offshoring of white …
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Using a balanced panel of firm-level data on the manufacturing industry in France, Italy and Spain over the 1993 …
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chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
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The accelerated overseas expansion of multinational retailers (MRs) over the last decade transformed these companies into major regional and global actors. In this paper we question how MRs arriving in foreign markets affect the export performance of local firms. We develop a theoretical...
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Multinational production has become increasingly important in recent decades. Countries resort to different industrial policies to influence the geography of this production. In this paper, we focus on a ubiquitous “soft” industrial policy that aims at reducing information barriers -...
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We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to … compensated partly by new job creation, particularly for high skilled workers. -- Outsourcing ; outward FDI ; motives ; location …
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outsourcing as possible determinants of market, cost and knowledge-related aspects of the competitiveness of firms. We find that …
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