Offshoring and export performance in the european automotive industry

Raphaël Chiappini

No 1104, Larefi Working Papers from Larefi, Université Bordeaux 4

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of offshoring on export performances of French, German and Italian automotive firms. We argue that the different offshoring strategies run by the main European automakers are responsible for the discrepancies in export performances of France, Germany and Italy on the world automotive market. We use an export equation and a panel data analysis and show that offshoring strongly affect exports of automotive firms. Focussing on the French and German export performances, we show that the relatively low export performance of France in the automotive industry since the end of the 1990s is mainly the result of an increase in offshoring lead by Renault and PSA.

Keywords: Offshoring; export performance; automotive industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 C26 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2011-04
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