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Grossman-Hart (1986) Goes Global: Incomplete Contracts, Property Rights, and the International Organization of Production

Antràs, Pol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

I survey the influence of Grossman and Hart's (1986) seminal paper in the field of International Trade. I discuss the implementation of the theory in open-economy environments and its implications for the international organization of production and the structure of international trade flows. I...

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Productivity, Relationship-Specific Inputs and the Sourcing Modes of Multinationals

Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We investigate the roles of productivity and the specificity of inputs for the international sourcing strategy of firms which are part of a multinational network. We present a framework in which firms decide to import from a foreign independent supplier or from their related party abroad...

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Services Trade and Policy

Francois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature touches on...

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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...

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Vertical Relations under Credit Constraints

Nocke, Volker; Thanassoulis, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

motive for outsourcing supply (or distribution) in the face of market risk. …

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Service Offshoring, Productivity and Employment: Evidence from the US

Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies. This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential...

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Off-Shoring of Business Services and Deindustrialization: Threat or Opportunity - and for Whom?

Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper takes a new look at the issue of overseas sourcing of services. In framework in which comparative advantage is endogenous to agglomeration economies and factor mobility, the fragmentation of production made possible by the new communication technologies and low transportation costs...

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The Distorting Arm's Length Principle

Devereux, Michael P.; Keuschnigg, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

organizational choice between direct investment and outsourcing. Although it raises tax revenue and welfare in the headquarter …

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Outsourcing Versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium

Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …

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Fear of Outsourcing: Is It Justified?

Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This Paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …

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