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Misfits in the Car Industry : Offshore Assembly Decisions at the Variety Level

Head, Keith - 2019

This paper estimates the role of country-variety comparative advantage in the decision to offshore assembly of more … to 2016, the top five offshoring brands account for half the car assembly relocated to low-wage countries. We show that … to foreign locations. The first type, the assembly costs common to all models, is estimated via a structural triadic …

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Effects of Product Availability : Experimental Evidence

Conlon, Christopher T. - 2010

Product availability impacts many industries such as transportation, events, and retail, yet little empirical evidence documents the importance of stocking decisions for firm profits, vertical relationships, or consumers. We conduct several experiments, exogenously removing top-selling products...

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An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade

Holmes, Thomas J. - 2010

There is wide variation in the sizes of manufacturing plants, even within the most narrowly defined industry classifications used by statistical agencies. Standard theories attribute all such size differences to productivity differences. This paper develops an alternative theory in which...

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Decoupling and Recoupling

Korinek, Anton - 2010

We develop a stylized model that captures the phenomena of decoupling and recoupling in an environment where heterogeneous entrepreneurial sectors face financial constraints in their relationship with a common set of lenders. In response to adverse shocks, a financially constrained sector must...

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Modern Management : Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2008

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...

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Monopoly Power and Endogenous Product Variety : Distortions and Remedies

Bilbiie, Florin O. - 2008

The inefficiencies related to endogenous product creation and variety under monopolistic competition are two-fold: one static--the misalignment between consumers and producers regarding the value of a new variety; and one dynamic--time variation in markups. Quantitatively, the welfare costs of...

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Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements

Antràs, Pol - 2008

The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global policy cooperation whose solutions require...

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Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World : Evidence from India

Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2008

Recent theoretical work predicts that an important margin of adjustment to deregulation or trade reforms is the reallocation of output within firms through changes in their product mix. Empirical work has accordingly shifted its focus towards multi-product firms and their product mix decisions....

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Optimal Choice of Product Scope for Multiproduct Firms under Monopolistic Competition

Feenstra, Robert - 2007

In this paper we develop a monopolistic competition model where firms exercise their market power across multiple products. Even with CES preferences, markups are endogenous. Firms choose their optimal product scope by balancing the net profits from a new variety against the costs of...

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Reference Points and the Theory of the Firm

Hart, Oliver D. - 2007

In this article I argue that it has been hard to make progress on Coase's theory of the firm agenda because of the difficulty of formalizing haggling costs. I propose an approach that tries to move things forward using the idea of aggrievement costs, and apply it to the question of whether a...

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