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Internalizing Global Value Chains : A Firm-Level Analysis
Alfaro, Laura - 2015
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert...
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Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements
Antras, Pol - 2010
The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing … features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global … policy cooperation whose solutions require international agreements with novel features? Can trade agreements that are …
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On the Geography of Global Value Chains
Antras, Pol - 2017
specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of …
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Global Sourcing and Multinational Activity : A Unified Approach
Antras, Pol; Fadeev, Evgenii; Fort, Teresa; Tintelnot, Felix - 2022
Multinational firms (MNEs) accounted for 42 percent of US manufacturing employment, 87 percent of US imports, and 84 of US exports in 2007. Despite their disproportionate share of global trade, MNEs’ input sourcing and final-good production decisions are often studied separately. Using newly...
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