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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 …

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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

Global production sharing is determined by international cost differences and frictions related to the costs of unbundling stages spatially. The interaction between these forces depends on engineering details of the production process with two extremes being ‘snakes’ and ‘spiders’....

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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...

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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...

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How are Product Demand Changes Transmitted to the Labour Market?

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

product demand can affect employment under these conditions. The analysis suggests that the longer-term effectiveness of …

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Imperfect Competition, Underemployment Equilibria and Fiscal Policy

Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

employment are determined by optimizing choices in an imperfectly competitive setting. It turns out that underemployment …

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Markups in the Labour and Product Markets and the Relative Performance of Industry and Services: Italy 1951-90

Brunello, Giorgio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

product and in labour markets, in the determination of sectoral employment growth in Italy during the last forty years (1951 … markets were quantitatively more important than changes in product markets in the determination of sectoral employment growth … remained constant after 1973, our simulations suggest that, on average, industrial and service employment would have been …

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