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Chapter 2. Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade

Antràs, Pol; Yeaple, Stephen R. - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 55-130). 2014

This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...

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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...

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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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Contractual frictions and global sourcing

Helpman, Elhanan (contributor); Antràs, Pol (contributor) - 2007

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Contractual frictions and global sourcing

Antràs, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - 2007

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Global Sourcing and Multinational Activity : A Unified Approach

Antràs, Pol; Fadeev, Evgenii; Fort, Teresa C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 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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Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements

Antràs, Pol; Staiger, Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

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 … perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …

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