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mode of entry. One type of this mode is offshoring which makes easier the relocation of business activity from developed … economies to developing economies. The study of offshoring activities is the focus of this paper, with the data coming from a … multinational firms to be engaged in foreign direct investment via offshoring. …
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&D activities of foreign companies in Germany. These results confirm that Germany is still an attractive location for R&D activites …
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on enterprise offshoring behaviour, with offshoring to regions outside of the advanced European Union's economies being …
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This study investigates the impact of international outsourcing to low? and high income countries on total factor productivity growth based on manufacturing industry data for 14 OECD countries from 1995 ? 2000. We find that the broad measure of international outsourcing of material inputs to low...
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Did multinational production (MP) exacerbate or mitigate the collapse of international trade during the Great Recession? What role did MP and trade links play in propagating economic shocks across countries? I resolve the “Multinationals’ Resilience Puzzle" during the Great Recession by...
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This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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This paper tests the assumption that offshoring of production activities leads to less innovation in the home country … offshoring firms employ more people in R&D and design, introduce more frequently new products, and invest more frequently in … advanced process technologies compared to non-offshoring firms. Concerns that offshoring may hurt innovation because of the …
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analyzes the determinants of foreign assets of German banks for a panel of up to 73 countries for the years 1985?1997. Cross …
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Globalization has effected business cycle developments in OECD countries and has increased activities of firms across national borders. This paper analyzes whether these two developments are linked. We use a new firm-level dataset on the foreign activities of German firms to test whether foreign...
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