The degree of offshore outsourcing in the high-tech industries has increased rapidly in past decades. Because of this trend, economists have been debating whether offshore outsourcing is hollowing out U.S. high-tech firms’ core competencies in intangibles. To contribute to the debate, I first develop a forward-looking profit model and use Compustat dataset to measure the capital stock and depre...

today trade is the basis of development of any societies that with its expansion, the industrial enterprises, takes advantage of its benefits and enhances their productivity. also they earn competitive advantage and further providing domestic needs, can capture the new markets. among these, the role of imports in trade is very important because the import of capital and intermediate inexpensive...

This cross-national study examines the relative importance of contextual factors facilitating e-health development in a nation. Moreover, this study examines the relationship between web presence and health development. Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework and PEST factors of a firm are used as the guiding theoretical lens. Publicly available data from more than 50 countries are ...

By introducing nonlinear technology gap into Jones (1995b), this chapter constructs an R&D non-scale growth model that includes endogenous human capital and technological progress. The goal is to take the model’s implications to the data to explaining the Chinese economic development experiences at period 1979-2004. Our model suggests that the technology gap has the block neck effect on the eco...

This paper investigates the effects of international trade in food on obesity in Mexico. We classify Mexican food imports from the U.S. into healthy and unhealthy and match these with anthropometric and food expenditure survey data. We find that exposure to imports of unhealthy foods significantly contributes to the rise of obesity in Mexico. The empirical evidence also suggests that unhealthy ...

Amidst continuing difficulties in justifying the expenditure on e-Government with financial and other returns, we examine whether the delivery of government services online facilitates the setting up of new businesses in a country. Using a panel assembled from three public sources of data, we examine whether delivering more and more government services online reduces the number of procedures th...

This paper explores the relationship between the substitutability of labor for capital in an industry’s production technology and entry into that industry. We present a simple stylized model that predicts that entry will be higher in industries with higher factor substitutability because firms in those industries can adjust their factor mix and are less likely to end up with wastefully large in...

The objective of this paper is to examine the effect trade and financial openness, through technology transfer channel, on total factor productivity (TFP) in a panel developing countries between 1988 2014. According growing body literature subject, there strong link openness eco-nomic growth, but are technological externalities key element for countries? To answer question, we resorted dynamic ...