investment ; globalization ; outsourcing ; technology ; capability ; energy ; trade flows ; inequality and poverty ; technology … recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and …

. The paper identifies conditions under which outsourcing to a low-wage country is a "friend" or an "enemy" to domestic …

Economic globalization causes an increasing international fragmentation (disintegration) of value-added-chains, whereby …

International fragmentation, or outsourcing, is often referred to as a distinctly novel feature in today's global … outsourcing targets for western European firms. Against this background this paper provides a policy-oriented discussion of cross … globalization. It then uses simple graphical tools to address, in a general way, several questions that appear relevant from western …

A distinctive feature of the present wave of economic globalization is that the principle of world-wide arbitrage is … outsourcing, or international fragmentation. Economists have investigated this phenomenon with a focus on welfare and factor price … welfare efect of outsourcing. Moreover, the paper highlights a crucial distinction between outsourcing that takes place in an …

Economic globalization causes an increasing international fragmentation of value-added chains. A question often raised … is whether such outsourcing affects domestic income distribution. The paper provides a theoretical treatment of this … fragmentation and shows how this margin shifts in response to economic globalization. Factor prices are driven by associated changes …