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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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Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China : Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2004

In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We …

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Internalizing Global Value Chains : A Firm-Level Analysis

Alfaro, Laura - 2015

In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert...

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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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Exploiting Complementarity in Applied General-Equilibrium Models : Heterogeneous Firms, Multinationals, Capacity Constraints, Endogenous Zeros

Markusen, James R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Applied general-equilibrium (AGE) models have often made compromises to circumvent difficult modeling problems. One of these is avoiding endogenous zeros, ruling out important questions. Traditional perfect competition models: when do technologies or trade links switch from active to inactive or...

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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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Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing

Boehm, Christoph E. - 2019

U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …

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Watch What I Do, Not What I Say : The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2009

This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using instruments that identify the...

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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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