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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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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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Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy
Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper presents and tests a new model of multinational firms to explain a rich array of multinational behavior. In contrast to most approaches, here the multinational faces costs to transferring its know-how that are increasing in technological complexity. Costly technology transfer gives...
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Service Offshoring, Productivity and Employment: Evidence from the US
Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a …. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately …
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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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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding
Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, David Krisztián; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. We...
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A World Factory in Global Production Chains: Estimating Imported Value Added in Chinese Exports
Koopman, Robert; Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The rise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in world trade has brought both benefits and anxiety to other economies. For many policy questions, it is crucial to know the extent of foreign value added (FVA) in exports. We review a general formula in Koopman, Wang and Wei (2008) for...
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Do Food Scares Explain Supplier Concentration? An Analysis of EU Agri-food Imports
Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise; Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper documents a decreasing trend in the geographical concentration of EU agro-food imports. Decomposing the concentration indices into intensive and extensive margins components, we find that the decrease in overall concentration indices results from two diverging trends: the pattern of...
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Canada: No Place Like Home for Antidumping
Ludema, Rodney D; Mayda, Anna Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We analyze temporary trade barriers (TTB) in Canada in 1989-2009. We find that, despite the retreat in TTB stocks in the last decade, there are signs of a rebound. New AD cases have surged during the crisis, which portends a rise in AD stocks that could last for several years. Thus, the...
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Import Competition and Exit in Business Services Sectors
Bombarda, Pamela; McCann, Fergal; Toubal, Farid - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Business services firms are increasingly under pressure from foreign competition. We develop an oligopolistic competition model that studies the effect of trade liberalization on exit and sectoral restructuring in the business services sector. We assume that firms are heterogeneous in their...
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