account the endogeneity of ICT investment in the offshoring decision equation we find a negative and significant effect of ICT … offshoring of manufacturing activities. …

Firms in competitive markets are more likely achieve higher productivity. Indeed a better performance of multinationals … however largely remained a black box: standard theoretical models consider differences in productivity as the results of a … technologies. This theoretical framework reconciles recent empirical work noting that productivity differences among firms can be …

We develop an endogenous growth model with R&D spillovers to study the long run consequences of offshoring with firm … heterogeneity and incomplete contracts. In so doing, we model offshoring as the geographical fragmentation of a firm’s production … upstream bargaining weight and offshoring activities, there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between these and growth …

. First, it matters when inferring measures of relative productivity from trade and production data. Secondly, it matters when … to the productivity gains that each country obtains from opening to trade, gains turn out to be largely due to the …

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We … examine whether productivity increases the probability of exporting, and assert that there is a causal relationship from high … productivity to entering foreign markets, as postulated by the recent literature on international trade with heterogeneous firms …

, all else equal, an increase in average productivity following a wave of FDI, as multinational corporations (MNCs) enjoy …

A production-theory approach to migration is adopted in this paper to address the role of migrant workers from extra …

level of employment, sourcing from abroad, investment in product improvement and average productivity are associated with a …