The effect of labour costs on industry profits, employment and labour income is at the heart of the current European debate on industry competitiveness. High wages paid in European countries such as Germany are generally considered harmful for industry profitability. Though, high wages appear...

This paper advances theory on the process of collaboration between entities and its implications on the quality of services, information, and/or products (SIPs) that the collaborating entities provide to each other. It investigates the scenario of outsourced IS projects (such as custom software...

Both horizontal and vertical innovations are studied in this paper, using monopolistic and oligopolistic competition models with multiproduct firms. We consider a two-stage game. In the first stage, all firms simultaneously choose their own number of products. In the second stage, firms make...

We present a simple general-equilibrium model where one industry is oligopolistic and vertically differentiated. The manufacturing of products of a higher quality requires the employment of a larger amount of skilled labour. Given an underlying skills distribution, the model determines profits,...

This paper models strategic taxation policy of home and host governments when a multinational enterprise sets transfer prices on globally joint inputs such as research and development. Tax credit and deduction allowances, as well as no taxation of foreign-earned profits, result in identical...

This paper investigates the strategic incentives for vertical foreign investment by risk-neutral oligopolistic firms and the effect of exchange rate uncertainty on such investment. Firms competing in a domestic final good market meet their input requirements through import. They have the option...

We construct a partial equilibrium model of intra-industry cross-hauling DFI with unionized duopoly, where wages and employment are determined through Nash bargaining between firms and national labor unions. We show that under symmetry, cross-hauling DFI is the unique Nash equilibrium, in which...

Within the endogenous growth framework, we offer an explanation on how foreign direct investment (FDI) generates externalities in the form of technology transfer. We distinguish between the level and rate effects of spillovers on the productivity of domestic firms. A new insight gained from the...

This paper examines the impact of uncertainty about economic policy on US exports, imports, and direct foreign investment inflows. Uncertainty over domestic and international economic policy adversely affects the international ow of goods, services, and investment. When sunk costs are associated...

This paper considers the role learning has on foreign direct investments (FDI) when there is both cost and demand uncertainty. FDI has an obvious benefit as it gains the firm information about local demand and costs. However, FDI has a second effect: it correlates the firm's cost with the local...