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Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs

Cockburn, Iain; Lanjouw, Jean O.; Schankerman, Mark - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries, using newly constructed data on launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries for the period 1983-2002, and information on the duration and content of patent and price control...

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Internationalization and Innovation of Firms: Evidence and Policy

Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom). We...

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Outsourcing and the shift from manufacturing to services

Berlingieri, Giuseppe - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Giuseppe Berlingieri looks at the structural transformation of the US economy over the past 60 years.

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Outsourcing and the shift from manufacturing to services

Berlingieri, Giuseppe - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Giuseppe Berlingieri looks at the structural transformation of the US economy over the past 60 years.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738421

The Determinants of Intrafirm Trade: Evidence from French Firms

Corcos, Gregory; Irac, Delphine M.; Mion, Giordano; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

How well does the theory of the firm explain the choice between intrafirm and arms' length trade? This paper uses firm-level import data from France to look into this question. We find support for three key predictions of property-rights theories of the multinational firm. Intrafirm imports are...

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Import Competition from and Outsourcing to China: A Curse or Blessing for Firms?

Mion, Giordano; Zhu, Linke - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

country of origin and distinguish between firm-level outsourcing of final versus intermediate goods. Results indicate that … China is different from both other low-wage and OECD countries. Industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing … Belgian firm survival, while firm-level outsourcing of finished goods to China even increased firm's probability of survival …

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Outsourcing and the Rise in Services

Berlingieri, Giuseppe - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of outsourcing on sectoral reallocation in the U.S. over the period 1948 … more than 90% of its output is an intermediate input to other firms, and it is where most of the service outsourcing … of the input-output structure, which is mostly due to professional and business services outsourcing, accounts for 36% of …

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The Determinants of Vertical Integration in Export Processing: Theory and Evidence from China

Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

outsourcing in export processing trade. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory export processing regimes in China, which …

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Productivity and the Sourcing Modes of Multinational Firms: Evidence from French Firm-Level Data

Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

assume higher fixed costs under outsourcing and a firm-specific production function. We use detailed French firm-level data …

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Off-Shoring of Business Services and De-Industrialization: Threat or Opportunity - and for Whom?

Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

This paper takes a new look at the issue of overseas sourcing of services. In framework in which comparative advantage is endogenous to agglomeration economies and factor mobility, the fragmentation of production made possible by the new communication technologies and low transportation costs...

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