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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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When Tariffs Disturb Global Supply Chains

Grossman, Gene M. - 2020

We study unanticipated tariffs on imports of intermediate goods in a setting with firm-to-firm supply relationships. Firms that produce differentiated products conduct costly searches for potential input suppliers and negotiate bilateral prices with those that pass a reservation level of match...

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From Just in Time, to Just in Case, to Just in Worst-Case : Simple models of a Global Supply Chain under Uncertain Aggregate Shocks

Jiang, Bomin; Rigobon, Daniel E.; Rigobón, Roberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Covid-19 highlighted the weaknesses in the supply chain. Many have argued that a more resilient or robust supply chain is needed. But what does a robust supply chain mean? And how do firms' decisions change when taken that approach? This paper studies a very stylized model of a supply chain,...

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How Much of Chinese Exports is Really Made In China? Assessing Domestic Value-Added When Processing Trade is Pervasive

Koopman, Robert - 2008

The rise of China in world trade has brought both benefits and anxiety to other economies. For many policy questions …

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A Minimalist Model for the Ruble During the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Lorenzoni, Guido; Werning, Iván - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This note isolates an overlooked economic force for the Ruble to appreciate in response to international sanctions limiting exports to Russia. The economic intuition is that when Russians are unable to buy the mix of foreign goods they wish, then foreign goods becomes less attractive, increasing...

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Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy

Blanchard, Emily J. - 2016

How do global supply chain linkages modify countries' incentives to impose import protection? Are these linkages empirically important determinants of trade policy? To address these questions, we introduce supply chain linkages into a workhorse terms-of-trade model of trade policy with political...

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Globalization, Returns to Accumulationa and the World Distribution of Output

Beaudry, Paul - 2004

This paper examines the extent to which the process of globalization can explain the observed widening in the cross …

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Global Production Sharing and Rising Inequality : A Survey of Trade and Wages

Feenstra, Robert - 2001

We argue that trade in intermediate inputs, or 'global production sharing,' is a potentially important explanation for the increase in the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers in the U.S. and elsewhere. Using a simple model of heterogeneous activities within an industry, we show that...

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Bilateral Trade as a Development Instrument Under Global Trade Restrictions

Nashashibi, Karim - 1974

In their striving toward development, a number of less developed countries have espoused bilateral trade as yet another policy instrument allowing them to increase their acquisition of foreign resources. This has been particularly true of the trade of India, Pakistan, and Egypt, on which some...

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Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2002

The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti …

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