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What Does Codetermination Do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms’ governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599243
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What Does Codetermination Do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms’ governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221177
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277412
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270536
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The bazaar effect, unbundling of comparative advantage, and migration
Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2007
equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274459
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How Do Banks Interact with Fintechs? Forms of Alliances and their Impact on Bank Value
Hornuf, Lars; Klus, Milan F.; Lohwasser, Todor S.; … - 2018
The increasing pervasiveness of technology-driven firms that offer banking services has led to a growing pressure on traditional banks to modernize their core business activities. Banks attempt to confront the challenges of digitalization by cooperating with financial technology firms (fintechs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931920
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Collateral and its substitutes in emerging markets' lending
Menkhoff, Lukas; Neuberger, Doris; Rungruxsirivorn, Ornsiri - 2011
Due to opaque information and weak enforcement in emerging loan markets, the need for collateral is high, whereas borrowers lack adequate assets to pledge as collateral. How is this puzzle solved? We find for a representative sample from Northeast Thailand that indeed most loans do not include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278879
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A Novel Framework to Evaluate Changes in Access to and Costs of Trade Finance
Auboin, Marc; Bekkers, Eddy; De Quarti, Dario - 2023
In this paper we integrate the costs of trade finance in a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to evaluate the trade and output effects of counterfactual policy experiments on costs of and access to trade finance. The costs of financing international trade consist of two components: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377420
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International outsourcing and the supply side productivity determinants
Grover, Arti - 2007
A service provider firm in an outsourcing relationship is distinct from a typical firm because it is not a stand alone …, rent, energy consumption cannot appropriately determine a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm's productivity. Academic … perspective of the host country, the sourcing firm, the global outsourcing industry and of course the service provider firm. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264201
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Uncertainty in Global Sourcing : Learning, Sequential Offshoring, and Selection Patterns
Larch, Mario; Navarro, Leandro - 2022
uncertainty by observing offshoring firms’ behaviour. The model characterises a sequential offshoring equilibrium path, led by the … Colombia, we test for the determinants and timing of offshoring decisions. We also derive spatial probit structural models to … identify the firms’ dynamic trade-off when they decide on the offshoring location. We find supportive evidence for the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242796