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Y2K and Offshoring : The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity

Mitra, Devashish - 2005

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities …, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in … an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in …

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Overseas Assembly and Country Sourcing Choices

Swenson, Deborah L. - 2004

outsourcing decisions are affected by changes in country and competitor costs. A number of interesting regularities emerge. When a … developed countries. In many cases, the measured responses to cost changes appear to correspond with outsourcing theories that …

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Global Sourcing and Multinational Activity : A Unified Approach

Antràs, Pol; Fadeev, Evgenii; Fort, Teresa C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Multinational firms (MNEs) accounted for 42 percent of US manufacturing employment, 87 percent of US imports, and 84 of US exports in 2007. Despite their disproportionate share of global trade, MNEs' input sourcing and final-good production decisions are often studied separately. Using newly...

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FDI Inflows and Domestic Firms : Adjustments to New Export Opportunities

McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina; Wong, Woan Foong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate the long-term effects of export opportunities to a large destination market on multinational affiliates and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on exports from Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry of...

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International Trade, Offshoring and Heterogeneous Firms

Baldwin, Richard - 2011

possibility that freer trade also alters the firm-size distribution via international firm migration (offshoring); firms must, by …

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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

Falck, Oliver - 2010

We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...

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We Can Work It Out - The Globalisation of ICT-enabled Services

van Welsum, Desiree - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic … statistical association between the share of both "non-clerical" and clerical occupations potentially affected by offshoring and …

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When Do Firms Shift Production Across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation?

Gray, Wayne B. - 2002

This paper takes a new approach to testing the impact of state environmental regulatory stringency on firms' location decisions, focusing on firms' allocation of production across states. We use Census data for the paper industry to measure the share of each firm's production in each state...

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The Effects of Offshore Assembly on Industry Location : Evidence from U.S. Border Cities

Hanson, Gordon H. - 1995

In this paper, I examine how the growth of offshore assembly in Mexico has affected manufacturing activity in U.S. border cities. Under the offshore assembly provision of the U.S. tariff schedule, goods that are assembled abroad using U.S.-manufactured components receive preferential tariff...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Relative Wages : Evidence from Mexico's Maquiladoras

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1995

correspond to an increase in outsourcing by multinationals from the United States and other Northern countries, is to shift …

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