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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010
. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009300131
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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium
Markusen, James R.; Strand, Bridget - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662176
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Organizations and Trade
Antràs, Pol; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791747
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Offshoring and Product Innovation
Naghavi, Alireza; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in … the country of origin. Offshoring is associated with reduced feedback from offshored plants to domestic labs as well as … static decision to relocate plants but not R&D. Hence, offshoring may be chosen by firms when it damages the growth rate of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123630
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Offshoring to a developing nation with a dual labor market
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020
improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242847
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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022
This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471205
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Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity
Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016
The division of labor between and within countries is driven by two fundamental forces, comparative advantage and increasing returns. We set up a simple Ricardian model with a Marshallian input sharing mechanism to study their interplay. The key insight that emerges is that the interaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543995
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The impact of immigration on firm-level offshoring
Olney, William W.; Pozzoli, Dario - 2018
This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign … of immigrants into a municipality reduces firm-level offshoring at both the extensive and intensive margins. The fact … that immigration and offshoring are substitutes has important policy implications, since restrictions on one may encourage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847152
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Trade policy uncertainty, offshoring, and the environment : evidence from US manufacturing establishments
Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023
pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540780
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Trade-in-goods and trade-in-tasks: An Integrating Framework
Baldwin, Richard; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
-way offshoring/trade-in-tasks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468674