During the recent decades, multitasking has become a more and more common phenomenon at workplaces. Rather than specializing in a job task,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This paper investigates the impact of FDI on population health using panel data for up to 179 countries over the period from 1980 to 2011. Our...

This paper shows that across multiple generations, the persistence of occupational and educational attainment in Germany is larger than...

We analyze the concentration of FDI in India at the district level, based on project-specific location choices since the reform program in the...

This article focuses on an apparent conflict between the standard trade theory and available empirical evidence on factor flows....

Based on evidence from national data, Henderson, Storeygard and Weil (AER 2012) suggest that growth of night lights can proxy reliably for...

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

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

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

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 multiple...

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