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The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing

Mankiw, N. Gregory; Swagel, Phillip - American Enterprise Institute - 2009

offshoring and international trade. …

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …. Third, we use the model to draw systematic predictions about the effects of immigration and offshoring on native workers and …

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Selection Effects with Heterogeneous Firms

Mrázová, Monika; Neary, J. Peter - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

We provide a general characterization of which firms will select alternative ways of serving a market. If and only if firms' maximum profits are supermodular in production and marketaccess costs, more efficient firms will select into the activity with lower market-access costs. Our result...

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Intermediaries in International Trade: Direct Versus Indirect Modes of Export

Bernard, Andrew B.; Grazzi, Marco; Tomasi, Chiara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

This paper examines the factors that give rise to intermediaries in exporting and explores the implications for trade volumes. Export intermediaries such as wholesalers serve different markets and export different products than manufacturing exporters. In particular, high market-specific fixed...

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In brief: China's trading success: the role of pure exporter subsidies

Defever, Fabrice; Riaño, Alejandro - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

China's government provides a wide range of incentives to encourage firms to produce almost exclusively for the foreign market. The authors analyse the impact of these 'pure exporter subsidies' on both the Chinese economy and the rest of the world - and what would happen if they were removed.

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Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalization

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

This paper develops a general equilibrium model of multi-product firms and analyzes their behavior during trade liberalization. Firm productivity in a given product is modeled as a combination of firm-level "ability" and firmproduct- level "expertise", both of which are stochastic and unknown...

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China's Pure Exporter Subsidies

Defever, Fabrice; Riaño, Alejandro - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

One third of Chinese exporters sell more than ninety percent of their production abroad. We argue that this distinctive pattern is attributable to a wide range of subsidies that provide incentives to these "pure exporters". We propose a heterogeneous firm model in which firms exporting all their...

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