This paper looks at the importance of CSR considerations in the decision taken by a foreign affiliate of a multinational company about...

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

In this article, we briefly review our own work, and related studies, on the impact of FDI in African countries using firm level data....

In this paper, we propose a new meta-frontier estimation method to investigate the environmental technical efficiency and carbon...

Our analysis is the first of its kind to explore patterns of subsidization and CO2 emissions in China’s electricity-producing sector....

We investigate how a firm's export activity and country idiosyncrasies determine the firm's adoption of environmental innovation (EI)...

In December 2018, G20 leaders committed themselves to fair and sustainable development, focusing, among other issues, on the labour...

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

Kiel Policy Brief No. 12

Kiel Policy Brief No. 66: Women are more fearful of taking risks than men. Researchers suggest that the early exit behavior of women...

We investigate whether firms’ "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the...

Our analysis is the first of its kind to explore patterns of subsidization and CO2 emissions in China’s electricity producing sector....

This paper investigates the role of regional credit systems for Chinese regional innovation, using data for the period 2000-2008. Both...

We compare the performance of Northern and Southern multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa, and contrast it with local firms in the host...

In this paper we look at the link between transport costs and offshoring activity. The paper does not aspire to be a complete survey...

We compare the performance of Northern and Southern multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa, and contrast it with local firms in the host...

This paper investigates the technical inefficiency, shadow price and substitution elasticity of CO2 emissions of China based on a...

While African countries are becoming more and more relevant as host countries for suppliers of multinational companies little is known...

The possibility to outsource over the internet should revolutionize foreign outsourcing, especially for services (UNCTAD, 2004). Our...

Formulating a model comprising transportation, uncertainty and price, we describe how Web procurement is likely to boost volumes of...