home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs …, using a recent theory on trade in tasks. A production function is estimated for the Netherlands for the period 1972-2001. It … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …

Netherlands, from firm-specific total factor productivity (TFP) measures. TFP measures are estimated by a semi …We compute aggregate productivity of three categories of regions, classified by level of urbanization in the … over the period 1997-2006. We analyse the productivity differentials across urbanization categories by decomposing them …