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Outsourcing, Offshoring and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-level Data for Emerging Economies
Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …It is striking that by far the lion's share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper …
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Outsourcing, Contracts and Innovation Networks
Naghavi, Alireza; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
innovation. In so doing, we model an industry in which R&D is performed by independent research labs and outsourcing production …We study the decision of firms between vertical integration and outsourcing in a dynamic setting with product … requires complementary upstream and downstream inventions. In the presence of search friction and incomplete outsourcing …
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Innovation and Growth with Rich and Poor Consumers
Brunner, Johann K; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
favourable for innovation incentives. This is consistent with empirical evidence, suggesting that countries with a more equal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656323
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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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Global Sourcing of a Complex Good
Van Biesebroeck, Johannes; Zhang, Lijun - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We analyze a firm that produces a final good from multiple intermediates that can each be sourced domestically or from a low-wage country. The model explicitly incorporates that sourcing decisions of intermediates are interdependent. Equilibrium predictions depend crucially on a key modeling...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468618
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468694
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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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