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CEP discussion paper
Automation, globalization and vanishing jobs: a labor market sorting view

We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search ...Read more...

Ester Faia, Sebastien Laffitte, Maximilian Mayer and Gianmarco Ottaviano

29 May 2020

CEP discussion paper
The comparative advantage of firms

Multiproduct firms dominate production, and their product turnover contributes substantially to aggregate growth. Theories propose that multiproduct firms grow by diversifying into products which need the same know-how o...Read more...

Johannes Boehm, Swati Dhingra and John Morrow

17 April 2019

CentrePiece article
in brief...Multinationals and the customs union

Leaving the customs union may lead multinationals to move out of the UK, resulting in the loss of thousands of jobs. That is the conclusion of research by Paola Conconi. She explains that in a customs union, goods cross ...Read more...

Paola Conconi

29 June 2018

CEP discussion paper
From final goods to inputs: the protectionist effect of rules of origin

Recent decades have witnessed a surge of trade in intermediate goods and a proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs). FTAs use rules of origin (RoO) to distinguish goods originating from member countries from those o...Read more...

Paola Conconi, Manuel García-Santana, Laura Puccio and Roberto Venturini

19 December 2017

CEP discussion paper
Swimming upstream: input-output linkages and the direction of product adoption

Multiproduct firms dominate production, and their product turnover contributes substantially to aggregate growth. Firms continually adapt their product mix, but what determines which products firms expand into? Theories ...Read more...

Johannes Boehm, Swati Dhingra and John Morrow

22 February 2016

CEP discussion paper
The Spatial Organization of Multinational Firms

Using six years of firm-level data covering 224 regions of the enlarged European Union, we evaluate the importance to a firm of locating its activities (production, headquarters, R&D, logistics and sales) close together....Read more...

Fabrice Defever

December 2010

CEP discussion paper
A Task-Based Approach to Organization: Knowledge, Communication and Structure

We bridge a gap between organizational economics and strategy research by developing a task-based approach to analyze organizational knowledge, process and structure, and deriving testable implications for the relation b...Read more...

Luis Garicano and Yanhui Wu

October 2010

CEP discussion paper
Spillovers in Space: Does Geography Matter?

Using US firm level panel data we simultaneously assess the contributions to productivity of three potential sources of research and development spillovers: geographic, technological, and product market (“horizontal”). T...Read more...

Sergey Lychagin, Joris Pinkse, Margaret E. Slade and John Van Reenen

August 2010

CEP discussion paper
Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment

We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge...Read more...

Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton

October 2007

CEP discussion paper
Economic Linkages Across Space

We develop a diagrammatic framework that can be used to study the economic linkages between regions or cities. Hitherto, such linkages have not been the primary focus of either the theoretical or empirical literatures. W...Read more...

Henry Overman, Patricia Rice and Anthony J. Venables

June 2007