Can South-South FDI, or investment flows between institutionally comparable partners better stimulate growth through backward...

Processes of regional economic integration have been shaping the economic relations between countries significantly during the last...

This paper evaluates firms’ exporting responses to BRI and considers their heterogeneity in ownership types, product types, regional...

We illustrate a new source of comparative advantage that is generated by countries’ different ability to adjust to technological...

The growth performance of the Chinese economy has been very strong over the last decade, even in the time of the current financial...

The overarching aim of the study is to investigate the key factors that determine how and how intensively countries can be integrated...

For around four decades, a large part of worldwide production has been organized in so-called Global Value Chains (GVCs). Raw...

We analyze whether landlocked regions are systematically poorer, using panel data for 1,527 regions in 83 nations from 1950-2014 and...

This paper investigates the persistence of self-employment in the districts of Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave, between 1925 and 2010....

Multinational Enterprises and Host Country Development is a unique collection of papers looking at different aspects of the link...

KBW 6: This study analyzes to what extent the rising share of foreign value added in exports and various factors of non-price...

KBW 12: The trend decline of productivity growth in Germany is not due to a single cause but is the result of the interplay of...

Over recent years the phenomenon of international outsourcing has provoked a considerable amount of public concern and anxiety....

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation...

Digitalization offers a variety of opportunities for female empowerment and for a more equal female participation in labor markets,...

While popular opinion often pictures FDI flowing in search of lowest-wage, lowest- skilled activities in emerging markets, actual FDI...

This volume brings together research papers dealing with the causes and consequences of offshoring. The first part considers causes...

Digitalization offers a variety of opportunities for female empowerment and for a more equal female participation in labor markets,...

Achieving environmentally and socially sustainable economic growth is a major challenge faced by the G20 countries. One avenue to...