The advent of information technology facilitates geographic separation of production tasks, which is referred to as offshoring in international contexts and inshoring in domestic contexts. Although the literature on offshoring has flourished, the research on inshoring is limited. This paper...

Policy makers in both developed and developing countries want to accelerate spatial development, make cities more competitive, attract new entrepreneurs, boost economic growth, and promote job creation. These are commendable goals given that city populations in developing countries are expected...

The advent of information technology facilitates the geographic separation of production tasks, which is referred to as offshoring in international contexts and inshoring in domestic contexts. Although the literature on offshoring has flourished, the research regarding inshoring is limited. This...

Germany's big cities are gaining in attractiveness both as a place for living and as a location for companies. Even as Germany's total population is declining, the population of cities increased by nearly 3 percent between 1999 and 2008. The same is true for spatial shifts in the economy: During...

Die großen Städte Deutschlands gewinnen sowohl als Wohnorte als auch als Unternehmensstandorte mehr und mehr an Attraktivität. Die Einwohnerzahlen sind zwischen 1999 und 2008 um fast drei Prozent gestiegen, während die Bevölkerung Deutschlands insgesamt leicht schrumpfte. Ähnlich ist die...

Deutschland hat von der Internationalisierung der Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) in multinationalen Unternehmen profitiert. Nachdem die internationale FuE-Bilanz bis 2001 ausgeglichen war, investieren ausländische Unternehmen inzwischen in Deutschland mehr in FuE als deutsche Unternehmen im...

Theoretically, if firms face a regulatory per-customer quantity limit, they should have an incentive to discriminatively charge high-demand customers higher prices and make them just willing to buy a quantity equal to the limit. In the U.S. residential mortgage industry, mortgages with...

We consider the effect of marketing expertise on economic transactions, with a particular focus on the real estate market. We show that even as listing information becomes increasingly accessible on real estate aggregation websites, realtor expertise remains important in securing a desirable...

Two defining elements of the “global network economy” are the evolution of global flagship networks (GFNs) and the increasing use of digital information systems (DIS) to manage these networks. Both transformations may gradually reduce constraints to cross-border knowledge diffusion, and...

We consider the effect of expertise on economic transactions, with a particular focus on the real estate market. We show that even as listing information becomes increasingly accessible on real estate aggregation websites, realtor expertise remains important in securing a desirable sale price....