We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …

interactive experiments via the Internet is adequate and reliable, making online interactive experimentation a valuable complement …

The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number …

We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … the productivity of exporting firms is in between – does not exist among firms from services industries. In line with the …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both services and materials offshoring. My results … suggest that we should expect, on average, a positive effect of services and a negative effect of materials offshoring on …, with larger effects from services. In particular, the average offshoring industry displays 1.4 to 1.98 additional …