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Trade in Intermediate Goods and Services

Miroudot, Sébastien; Lanz, Rainer; Ragoussis, Alexandros - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2009

This study analyses trade flows in intermediate goods and services among OECD countries and with their main trading partners. Combining trade data and input-output tables, bilateral trade in intermediate goods and services is estimated according to the industry of origin and the using industry...

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Organizations and Trade

Antràs, Pol; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - In: Annual Review of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 43-64

We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modeling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...

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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium

Markusen, James R.; Strand, Bridget - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...

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Organizations and Trade

Antràs, Pol; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791747

Offshoring and Product Innovation

Naghavi, Alireza; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in … the country of origin. Offshoring is associated with reduced feedback from offshored plants to domestic labs as well as … static decision to relocate plants but not R&D. Hence, offshoring may be chosen by firms when it damages the growth rate of …

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The Multinational Firm

Yeaple, Stephen Ross - In: Annual Review of Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 193-217

This article documents the recent advances in the international trade literature toward understanding the role of multinational firms in the conduct of international commerce. Over the past 10 years, we have developed a better understanding of the incentives firms face in their choice of...

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Trade-in-goods and trade-in-tasks: An Integrating Framework

Baldwin, Richard; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

-way offshoring/trade-in-tasks. …

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A New Look at Offshoring and Inequality: Specialization Versus Competition

Ekholm, Karolina; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen-Helene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

rise in offshoring. To analyze the relationship between globalization, offshoring and relative wages, we develop a general … equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative … inequality. The result is a bell-shaped relationship between wage inequality and offshoring when globalization is driven by …

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Offshoring: General Equilibrium Effects on Wages, Production and Trade

Baldwin, Richard; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

A simple model of offshoring, which depicts offshoring as ‘shadow migration,’ permits straightforward derivation of … necessary and sufficient conditions for the effects on wages, prices, production and trade. We show that offshoring requires … modification of the four classic international trade theorems, so econometricians who ignore offshoring might reject the Heckscher …

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Now IT's Personal: Offshoring and the Shifting Skill Composition of the U.S. Information Technology Workforce

Tambe, Prasanna; Hitt, Lorin M. - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 4, pp. 678-695

We combine new information technology (IT) offshoring and IT workforce microdata to investigate how the use of IT … outsourcing, and whether firms choose to build or buy software. Instrumental variables and corroborating regressions suggest that …

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