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Expansion of Trade at the Extensive Margin: A General Gains-from-Trade Result and Illustrative Examples
Markusen, James R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
paper is motivated by recent evidence that trade has greatly expanded on the extensive margin (aka fragmentation, offshoring … understood, a sufficient condition for all countries to gain from fragmentation is that the relative world prices of initially … results in interesting subtleties as initially-traded goods change their trade status following fragmentation. I illustrate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468576
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Spiders and Snakes: Offshoring and Agglomeration in the Global Economy
Baldwin, Richard; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
stages is bounded only by the fragmentation of the underlying engineering process, and lower frictions monotonically increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784697
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Supply-chain trade: A portrait of global patterns and several testable hypotheses
Baldwin, Richard; Lopez-Gonzalez, Javier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
The trade linked to international production networks – supply-chain trade for short – is associated with momentous global economic changes. This paper presents a portrait of the global pattern of supply-chain trade and how it has evolved since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083297
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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium
Markusen, James R.; Strand, Bridget - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of production activities to try to capture the specific features of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662176
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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
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Evaluating the Contributions of Regional Trade Agreements to Governance of Services Trade
Stephenson, Sherry; Robert, Maryse - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of … governance by focusing on four different issues : architecture; compliance; ability to promote reforms; and actual impact of RTAs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653138
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Evaluating the Contributions of Regional Trade Agreements to Governance of Services Trade
Stephenson, Sherry; Robert, Maryse - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of … governance by focusing on four different issues : architecture; compliance; ability to promote reforms; and actual impact of RTAs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653166