In this paper, we assess the extent to which multinational firms – in the first instance, the German ones – may adjust their international outsourcing over the business cycle in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. For that purpose, we have used monthly data of production for the manufacturing...

The main goal of this paper is to assess empirically to which extent the volatility of production is due to activities of firms under foreign ownership. Following Bergin et al. (2009) and Levasseur (2010), we postulate that multinational firms can use their contractors and their sites of...

L’économie italienne, dont les taux de croissance ont été remarquablement élevés pendant les années 1950-1960, est devenue, en ce début du 21e siècle, la lanterne rouge de la zone euro. Cette médiocre performance est, en grande partie, attribuable à l’incompatibilité entre une...