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The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms

Antràs, Pol; Fort, Teresa C; Tintelnot, Felix - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies the extensive and intensive margins of firms' global sourcing decisions. We develop a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables. The model delivers a simple...

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Corporate Growth and FDI: Are Multinationals Stimulating Local Industrial Development?

Fotopoulos, Georgios; Louri-Dendrinou, Eleni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The aim of this Paper is to improve our understanding of the empirical determinants of corporate growth by extending the literature to include a new group of variables related to FDI, namely the degree of foreign ownership and technology spillovers. Based on recent developments in the field, our...

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Global Sourcing

Antràs, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We present a North-South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral characteristics, firms decide whether to integrate into the...

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Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and the Costs of Coporate Taxation

Keuschnigg, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Depending on the definition of the tax base, the statutory corporate tax rate implies rather different measures of effective average and marginal tax rates. This paper develops a model of a monopolistically competitive industry with extensive and intensive business investment and shows how these...

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Foreign Ownership, Returns to Scale and Productivity: Evidence from UK Manufacturing Establishments

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This paper calculates returns to scale and productivity growth in UK manufacturing establishments in the electronics and food industries. Our results show that foreign establishments tend to have lower returns to scale than their domestic counterparts. We also examine the effect of the...

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Export versus FDI

Helpman, Elhanan; Melitz, Marc J; Yeaple, Stephen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper builds a multi-country, multi-sector general equilibrium model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either through exports or local subsidiary sales (FDI). These modes of market access involve different relative costs, some of which are sunk while...

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Reciprocal Anti-Dumping and the Location of Firms

Haaland, Jan I.; Wooton, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Anti-dumping policies are often justified as legitimate actions by governments in their efforts to protect domestic … producers from unfair foreign competition. We investigate the impact of anti-dumping rules on firms' production decisions as to … how much and where to produce. Anti-dumping measures may have unforeseen effects if they induce direct foreign investment …

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Carry-Along Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Blanchard, Emily; van Beveren, Ilke; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Large multi-product firms dominate international trade flows. This paper documents new facts about multi-product manufacturing exporters that are not easily reconciled with existing multi-product models. Using novel linked production and export data at the firm-product level, we find that the...

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Imports, Entry and Competition Law as Market Disciplines

Hoekman, Bernard; Kee, Hiau Looi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Since the early 1990s, numerous countries have adopted or strengthened competition legislation. In this Paper we investigate the impact of competition law on industry markups over time and across a large number of countries. We find both domestic and foreign competition to be major sources of...

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Does 'Non-Committed' Government Always Generate Lower Social Welfare then its 'Committed' Counter-Part

Zigic, Kresimir - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We compare the social welfare generated by a domestic government in two types of policy set-ups: a ‘commitment’ regime in which government sets its policy instrument before the strategic choice by a domestic firm and a ‘non-commitment’ regime where the policy variable is set after the...

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