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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2011

multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics …

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Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements

Antràs, Pol - 2008

perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …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 …

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Internalizing Global Value Chains : A Firm-Level Analysis

Alfaro, Laura - 2015

integration choices of firms around the world …

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Selection and Market Reallocation : Productivity Gains from Multinational Production

Alfaro, Laura - 2012

Assessing the productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and...

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The organization of firms across countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2009

We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters...

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Trade and Tasks : An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O. - 2014

faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to lower labour-market tightness. We discuss policy implications of these findings …

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Trading Tasks : A Simple Theory of Offshoring

Grossman, Gene M. - 2006

tradable tasks and use it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country. We identify a …

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Affiliates of U.S. and Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...

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Affiliate Activity in Japanese and U.S. Multinationals and Japanese Exports, 1986-1995

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001

This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic activities of foreign manufacturing affiliates of Japanese multinational corporations (MNCs) and U.S. MNCs in those markets. First, the relationships between Japanese export levels...

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Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade

Antràs, Pol - 2013

This article reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...

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