effect of R&D offshoring on industrial productivity in the home country using industry-level data for 18 OECD countries over … a 26-year period. Simultaneity between productivity and R&D offshoring is addressed by using foreign tax policy as an … instrument for offshored R&D. We show that R&D offshoring contributes positively to productivity in the home country …

offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …The economic effects of offshoring have been subject to extensive empirical analysis in the past, but many studies have …

It is well known that labour productivity growth in Europe is slowing down, against an increasing growth rate in the US …. The Netherlands is one of the countries in Europe with the lowest growth rates of productivity. This article looks at this … of The Netherlands between 1995 and 2002. We find that slow productivity growth in The Netherlands is particularly …

other public policies can narrow regional gaps in income, well-being and access to services, productivity growth is key to …, this paper documents the performance of Swedish large regions (TL2) on the main productivity drivers identified by the … high regional productivity, namely rail and road connectivity, knowledge-intensive employment and research and education …

both spatial lag and spatial error processes, leading to the estimation of a dynamic spatial Durbin model. By decomposing …

factor mobility, leading to a convergence equation with spatial effects. The empirical analysis is based on the estimation of …