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Spiders and Snakes: Offshoring and Agglomeration in the Global Economy

Baldwin, Richard; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Global production sharing is determined by international cost differences and frictions related to the costs of unbundling stages spatially. The interaction between these forces depends on engineering details of the production process with two extremes being ‘snakes’ and ‘spiders’....

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Multinationals, Endogenous Growth and Technological Spillovers: Theory and Evidence

Baldwin, Richard; Braconier, Henrik; Forslid, Rikard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

FDI has received surprisingly little attention in theoretical and empirical work on openness and growth. This paper presents a theoretical growth model where MNCs directly affect the endogenous growth rate via technological spillovers. This is novel since other endogenous growth models with...

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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …

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International Welfare and Employment Linkages Arising from Minimum Wages

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Markusen, James R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

workers at home and abroad. In an extension to our baseline model, we illustrate that offshoring production from the high …

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Supply-chain trade: A portrait of global patterns and several testable hypotheses

Baldwin, Richard; Lopez-Gonzalez, Javier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

The trade linked to international production networks – supply-chain trade for short – is associated with momentous global economic changes. This paper presents a portrait of the global pattern of supply-chain trade and how it has evolved since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data...

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A New Look at Offshoring and Inequality: Specialization Versus Competition

Ekholm, Karolina; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen-Helene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

rise in offshoring. To analyze the relationship between globalization, offshoring and relative wages, we develop a general … equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative … inequality. The result is a bell-shaped relationship between wage inequality and offshoring when globalization is driven by …

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Harnessing Success: Determinants of University Technology Licensing Performance

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study the impact of incentive pay, local development objectives and government constraints on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together with panel data on U.S. universities for...

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Knowledge Diffusion, Supplier's Technological Effort and Technology Transfer via Vertical Relationships

Goh, Ai Ting - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper studies the effect of knowledge diffusion on the incentives for developed countries’ (DC) firms to undertake costly transfer of production knowledge of an input to their developing countries’ (LDC) suppliers whose costs of production vary inversely with their technological effort....

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The Gravity of Knowledge

Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign a¢ liates in either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied...

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Global supply chains: Why they emerged, why they matter, and where they are going

Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

-South offshoring to nations like China, and 4) the price of oil that raises the cost of unbundling. …

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