information costs increase in distance, distance should – ceteris paribus – become less important in determining international …

biased technical progress rather than by increasing international trade with low wage countries. However, in linking prices … for final goods with prices of primary factors, most empirical studies have only dealt with international trade in final … goods and have thereby neglected the impact of international outsourcing. In this paper it is argued that outsourcing can be …

recruiting internationally. A number of hypotheses for the international demand are formulated and assessed. Foreign highly …-skilled employees are recruited mainly because of their special skills, be it international competence or technical know-how, that are …

boost volumes of international services vs. materials inputs. Using panel data for over 2,000 firms, we find that Web … procurement increases international services outsourcing by between 1.6 and 2.5 percent for the FE and D-in-D matching estimators …. Although no existing work has yet reported effects for international materials outsourcing we find that Web procurement …

This paper investigates the impact of international shocks - interest rate, commodity price and industrial production …

for technology diffusion, how this changed over time, and whether international trade, foreign direct investment, and …