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Joining the supply chain: A firm-level perspective from Southeast Asia

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014

This paper undertakes a comparative, firm-level analysis of joining the supply chain in five Southeast Asian economies to improve our understanding of fragmentation of manufacturing across borders. The research maps supply chains and conducts firm-level econometric analysis on 5,900 enterprises....

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Outsourcing and skill-specific employment in a small economy: Austria and the fall of the Iron Curtain

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2000

We present a model, in which a small industrialised economy outsources part of its production into a small foreign country which is well endowed with low-skilled labour. We analyse under which conditions sinking trade costs stimulate outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion...

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The trade effects of endogenous preferential trade agreements

Egger, Peter; Larch, Mario; Staub, Kevin E.; … - 2010

Recent work by Anderson and van Wincoop (2003) establishes an empirical modeling strategy which takes full account of the structural, non-(log-)linear impact of trade barriers on trade in new trade theory models. Structural new trade theory models have never been used to evaluate and quantify...

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Intermediate Inputs and the Export Gravity Equation

Navas, Antonio; Serti, Francesco; Tomasi, Chiara - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2013

countries. The model highlights how imports from a specific country affects a firm's decision to export to that country (the … extensive margin), as well as its export value (the intensive margin). The model shows that the effect of both distance and … market size on the export margins is magnified when imports in intermediates are accounted for. Indeed, to the extent that …

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Exchange rate pass-through and product heterogeneity: does quality matter on the import side?

Bernini, Michele; Tomasi, Chiara - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2014

Using Italian firm-level data for the period 2000-2006, this paper investigates the role of the quality of imported inputs and exported output in determining the heterogeneous response of exporters' prices to real exchange rate fluctuations. The analysis confirms previous findings that the...

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