Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of … selling abroad. Because offshoring requires larger sunk costs than domestic sourcing, some firms decide to offshore only when … arm’s length. The model further implies that firms are more likely to offshore when frictions in the provision of services …

supply chains reduced donations. The impacts of corruption and logistics performance likely persisted from pre-COVID times …

importance, formal research on the contribution of supply chain logistics, including the relative impacts across different … logistics dimensions, is less. The importance of supply chains has been recently been brought to the forefront in the wake of … examine the relative effects of the different aspects of supply chain logistics on economic growth. Placing the empirical …

In this paper we model the demand for immigrants as a trade-off native voters face between having services, produced by … services. Assimilated immigrants take on skilled jobs. At the political level natives choose the number of immigrants that can … be allowed, given some fixed price for services. We show that, at the assumed price, it is never optimal for natives to …

The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets …. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the … manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive effects are both on firms directly offshoring services and on non …

collection, and since the government faces limited borrowing, a high default risk makes a system of up-front collection …

that raised the cost of fixed-term contracts while keeping permanent contract costs unchanged. We employ a difference … vacancies in Italy, our findings indicate that the increase in hiring costs for temporary contracts led to a decrease in the …

of risk aversion, the higher the agency costs for delegation and hence the less profitable is a flexible contract versus …This paper studies the costs and benefits of delegating decisions to superiorly informed agents relative to the use of …' understanding of the possible circumstances in which actions will have to be chosen and their attitude towards risk and uncertainty …