Productivity versus Endowments: A Study of Singapores Sectoral Growth 1974-92 (2007)
Hiau Looi Kee, Deborah Swenson, Gary Hunt, I Western Economic
Productivity and the Rybczynski effects of factor endowments have been highlighted as the two main reasons behind the growth of the East Asian NIEs. However, empirical studies at the aggregate level...
Productivity or Endowments? Sectoral Evidence for Hong Kong’s Aggregate Growth 1 (2007)
Hiau Looi Kee, Deborah Swenson, Catherine Morrison Paul, Kaoru Nabeshima, Mary Amiti
This paper provides sectoral evidence that sheds new light on the current debate regarding the sources of growth of the East Asian miracle. We test both the productivity-driven and endowment-driven...
Functional Specialisation and the Location of Multinational Firms in the Enlarged Europe ∗ (2005)
Fabrice Defever, Céline Azemar, Gábor Békés, Matthieu Crozet, Gilles Duranton, Fabian Gouret, ...
Despite the recent development of location theory, the role of services surrounding production activity has been largely understudied. We propose to analyze the location of multinational firms ’...
Outsourcing Price Decisions: Evidence from U.S. 9802 Imports
This paper studies U.S. overseas assembly imports to identify whether factors related to information or search costs appear to condition outsourcing decisions. The data for 1991-2000 show that U.S....
Keith Head, John Ries, Deborah Swenson
Recent theories of economic geography suggest that firms in the same industry may be drawn to the same locations because proximity generates positive externalities or 'agglomeration effects.' Under...
Competition and the Location of Overseas Assembly
How does international competition affect overseas outsourcing? While it is commonly believed that international competition enables firms to desert high cost countries in favor of low wage...