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Technology and Production Fragmentation : Domestic versus Foreign Sourcing
Fort, Teresa C. - 2016
This paper provides direct empirical evidence on the relationship between technology and firms' global sourcing strategies. Using new data on U.S. firms' decisions to contract for manufacturing services from domestic or foreign suppliers, I show that a firm's adoption of communication technology...
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Conceptual Aspects of Global Value Chains
Antràs, Pol - 2019
I offer an overview of some key conceptual aspects associated with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). I outline a series of alternative interpretations and definitions of what the rise of GVCs entails, and I trace the implications of these alternative conceptualizations for the measurement...
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Global Value Chains
Antràs, Pol; Chor, Davin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper surveys the recent body of work in economics on the importance of global value chains (GVCs) in shaping international trade flows and multinational activity. On the empirical front, we begin reviewing several variants of the "macro approach" to measuring the relevance of global...
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Organizing the Global Value Chain
Antràs, Pol - 2012
each stage, a final-good producer contracts with a distinct supplier for the procurement of a customized stage …
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Don't Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater : Firm Response to Downstream Product Shocks
Akari, Phares; Chatterjee, Chirantan; Higgins, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We explore how firms respond to downstream product shocks. We find that affected firms increase R&D and make additional safety-related investments in their existing assets-in-place. These investments vary with firm capabilities and across shock severity. Competitors appear to vicariously learn...
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Vaccine Allocation Priorities Using Disease Surveillance and Economic Data
Malani, Anup; Soman, Satej; Ramachandran, Sabareesh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
procurement decisions in the context of India. We compare 3 different allocation strategies (oldest first, highest contact rate … vaccines that can practically guide government procurement decisions. Our analysis yields 4 novel findings. First, the need to …
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Lobbying Physicians : Payments from Industry and Hospital Procurement of Medical Devices
Bergman, Alon; Grennan, Matthew; Swanson, Ashley - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
firms to physicians and medical device procurement by hospitals. These payments (and the interactions that accompany them …' treatment decisions, and in turn hospital device procurement, in favor of paying firms. Payments are pervasive: 87 percent of … the relationship between expertise and device procurement patterns. Hospitals affiliated with the top Academic Medical …
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Misallocation in the Market for Inputs : Enforcement and the Organization of Production
Boehm, Johannes - 2018
The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with weaker enforcement. Specifically, we document that in...
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Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives : Theory and Evidence
Bajari, Patrick - 2009
In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading …
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Towards an Efficient Mechanism for Prescription Drug Procurement
Fong, Kyna - 2009
This paper applies ideas from mechanism design to model procurement of prescription drugs. We present a mechanism for … government-funded market-driven drug procurement that achieves very close to full static efficiency -- all members have access to …
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