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On the effects of unilateral environmental policy on offshoring in multi-stage production processes
Schenker, Oliver; Koesler, Simon; Löschel, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
offshoring to unregulated jurisdictions. We first apply an analytical partial-equilibrium model of a two-stage production process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122573
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On the effects of unilateral environmental policy on offshoring in multi-stage production processes
Schenker, Oliver; Koesler, Simon; Löschel, Andreas - 2014
offshoring to unregulated jurisdictions. We first apply an analytical partial-equilibrium model of a two-stage production process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460697
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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the characteristics of the investing countries and the investments themselves. It also summarizes the findings of studies in individual countries of the effects of these investments. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321785
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FDI and Growth in East Asia: Lessons for Indonesia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
Foreign direct investment has been important in the economic growth and global economic integration of developing countries over the last decades. Both Northeast and Southeast Asia, especially the latter, have been part of this development with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675723
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The Dynamics of Offshoring and Institutions
Heyman, Fredrik; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
, little is known about the impact of institutional quality on offshoring. This is surprising, given that offshoring has become … between institutional quality and offshoring. The results suggest that weak institutions are negatively related to offshoring … in general and to offshoring of R&D-intensive goods in particular. Furthermore, firms that are able to establish long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555254
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Offshoring and labor income risk
Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large … offshoring trends at the sector level. Importantly, we distinguish between transitory and permanent shocks to individual income …-insurable. It thus has a particular relevance for individual welfare. Our findings suggest that offshoring tends to lower permanent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957736
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Offshoring and labor income risk
Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large … offshoring trends at the sector level. Importantly, we distinguish between transitory and permanent shocks to individual income …-insurable. It thus has a particular relevance for individual welfare. Our findings suggest that offshoring tends to lower permanent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308485
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The Relationship between Domestic and Outward Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Industry-Specific Effects
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Oxelheim, Lars; Thulin, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004
Previous research has been inconclusive as regards the effect of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic investments. In this article we show that this inconclusiveness can be explained at a disaggregated level as a function of the way industries are organized. Based on a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419510
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Location of R&D and High-Tech Production by Vertically Integrated Multinationals
Ekholm, Karolina; Hakkala, Katariina - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004
This paper presents evidence that, in Europe, production of high-tech goods is attracted to large markets, while R&D activities tend to be located away from them. In order to explain this phenomenon, we develop a two-country general equilibrium model where firms make separate choices about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419517
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Reconciling the Evidence on the Knowledge Capital Model
Braconier, Henrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Urban, Dieter - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003
The Knowledge Capital Model (KC-model), described in Markusen (2002), encompasses both market size (horizontal) as well as factor endowment (vertical) explanations to why multinational production occurs. Although the KC-model seems intuitively appealing, the empirical support has, so far, been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207064