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Global sourcing of complex production processes

Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - 2011

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...

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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...

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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 …

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Redistributive income taxation under outsourcing and foreign direct investment

Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - 2010

This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax … response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for …

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Preference bias and outsourcing to market: a steady-state analysis

Wang, Ping; Riezman, Raymond - 2008

We analyze a model that focuses on the export/outsource decision. Outsourcing has the advantage of providing better … technology embodied in the local capital. The decision of whether to offer an outsourcing contract weighs these two effects … against each other. The host country accepts the outsourcing contract if the higher price they pay for the outsourced good is …

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FDI and Growth in East Asia: Lessons for Indonesia

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2010

Foreign direct investment has been important in the economic growth and global economic integration of developing countries over the last decades. Both Northeast and Southeast Asia, especially the latter, have been part of this development with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign...

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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2011

This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the characteristics of the investing countries and the investments themselves. It also summarizes the findings of studies in individual countries of the effects of these investments. The...

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Institutions and offshoring decision

Nicolini, Marcella - 2007

affect the volume of offshoring between U.S. companies and their affiliates. The suggested argument is stronger for the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264188

Institutions and Offshoring Decision

Nicolini, Marcella - 2021

affect the volume of offshoring between U.S. companies and their affiliates. The suggested argument is stronger for the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316890

The trade and welfare effects of mergers in space

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2008

This paper analyzes the consequences of cross-border mergers in a spatial framework, thereby distinguishing three channels of influence: a price increase due to the elimination of product market competition, an adjustment in plant location which reduces overall transportation cost expenditures,...

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