Overview
2008 - 2010
In recent years, firms in advanced economies have been increasingly relocating a broad range of operations and functions including R&D activities and manufacturing processes to overseas sites (offshoring). Furthermore, these relocations are not only to divisions within their own multinational corporations but also to unrelated firms (outsourcing). As a result, identifying the current status of cross-border outsourcing has become critically important in formulating Japan's trade policies, regional economic policies and industrial policies. The aim of this project is to undertake an econometric analysis of corporate survey results in order to contribute to an understanding of the offshore outsourcing by Japanese firms, which has an important bearing on Japan's policies. In addition, offshore outsourcing is analyzed with an aim to verify new trade theories.
August 4, 2008 - March 31, 2011
Major Research Results
Major Research Results
2011
RIETI Discussion Papers
2010
RIETI Discussion Papers
10-E-056
"Spatial Relocation with Heterogeneous Firms and Heterogeneous Sectors" (OKUBO Toshihiro and Rikard FORSLID)
10-E-033
"Does Firm Boundary Matter? The effect of offshoring on productivity of Japanese firms" (ITO Banri, TOMIURA Eiichi and WAKASUGI Ryuhei)
10-E-032
"Offshoring and Corporate Headquarters: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data" (TOMIURA Eiichi, ITO Banri and WAKASUGI Ryuhei)
10-E-017
"Productivity Distribution, Firm Heterogeneity, and Agglomeration: Evidence from firm-level data" (OKUBO Toshihiro and TOMIURA Eiichi)
10-E-016
"Industrial Relocation Policy and Heterogeneous Plants Sorted by Productivity: Evidence from Japan" (OKUBO Toshihiro and TOMIURA Eiichi)
