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Relocation and Investment in R&D by Firms
(2011)
The literature on foreign direct investment has analyzed firms’ location decisions when they invest in R&D to reduce production costs. Such firms may set up new plants in other developed countries while maintaining
their ...
Environmental Standards, Wage Incomes and the Location of Polluting Firms
(2000-03)
The purpose of this paper is to study how the choice of environmental standards by governments is affected by the existence of wage incomes when firms' location is endogenous. In developed countries labor is unionized, ...
Timing of Wage Setting when Firms Invest in R&D
(2003-12)
In this paper, we analyze the effect that the timing of wage setting (i. e. whether wages set sequentially or simultaneously) has on the investment in R&D of firms, when that investment increases the productivity of labor, ...