In this paper I investigate the relocation decision of manufacturing plants in the German economy. The relocation decision involves whether a plant moves its location from one region to another over a time period or whether it stays in the same region. To analyze the relocation of plants, I...

Women in developing countries face challenges in terms of managing their menstrual hygiene. Oftentimes they do not possess the right means nor materials nor have access to the right facilities. Using a newly released dataset for Burkina Faso and propensity score matching, we provide for the...

We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation. Our theory suggests that increasing productivity in automation leads to a relocation of previously offshored production back to the home economy but without improving...

This paper provides a programme that computes in STATA a Firm-Level Cluster Index based on the method - with minor differences - from Thomas Brenner and Tobias Scholl, "Detecting Spatial Clustering Using a Firm-Level Cluster Index", Regional Studies, 2016, p. 1054-1068

We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation. Our theory suggests that increasing productivity in automation leads to a relocation of previously offshored production back to the home economy but without improving...

Research on reshoring has received increasing interest in the past literature, however it has not yet been adequately measured in macroeconomic studies. In this note I give an example of how a declining degree of offshoring is not able to indicate reshoring. Moreover, I briefly talk about a new...

I investigate the relationship between the extensive margins of imports and exports (the number of countries traded with and the number of goods traded) and firm productivity using a newly constructed and rich panel data set of German manufacturing firms for the years 2009-2014. I do for the...

The development of Industrial Localization and Countries' Specialization Patterns in the European Union, the driving forces behind and dynamic tendencies will be investigated in this paper making use of EU-KLEMS data. New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography can explain both Industrial...

The past literature found evidence for the presence of endogeneity issues due to individuals' heterogeneity and omitted time-varying variables in the relationship between income and life satisfaction on the micro-level for the UK (Powdthavee (2010)). The aim of the present contribution is to put...

The aim of this article is to investigate services sectors' concentration in the European Union based on employment data and to disentangle the sector-specific developments and influential factors over time. We find that only the financial intermediation, retail trade and water transport sectors...