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Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Sourcing
Ornelas, Emanuel; Turner, John L.; Bickwit, Grant - 2018
We study how a preferential trade agreement (PTA) affects international sourcing decisions, aggregate productivity and … from the investment. This raises aggregate productivity. On the other hand, the agreement yields sourcing diversion. More … tariff tips it toward harmful sourcing diversion. A PTA also affects the structure of vertical chains in the economy. As …
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The Costs and Benefits of Rules of Origin in Modern Free Trade Agreements
Ornelas, Emanuel; Turner, John L. - 2022
those suppliers it does affect, the rule increases investment, but it also induces excessive sourcing (for given investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427706
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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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Corporate Social Responsibility along the Global Value Chain
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2021
Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders' demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177532
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Optimal Ownership and Firm Performance: An Analysis of China's FDI Liberalization
Eppinger, Peter; Ma, Hong - 2023
Seminal theories of the firm posit that firm ownership is allocated to minimize contractual inefficiencies. Yet, it remains unclear how much the optimal ownership choice affects firm performance in practice. This paper provides a first quantification of the gains from optimal ownership within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377525
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Team Production, Gender Diversity, and Male Courtship Behavior
von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2015
This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men derive utility from signaling high ability to female colleagues. The analysis shows that some gender diversity maximizes expected team production if (i) men and women have similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500415
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Supplier Search and Rematching in Global Sourcing - Theory and Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Fischer, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - 2017
In this paper, we consider a dynamic search-and-matching problem of a firm with its intermediate input supplier. In our model, a headquarter currently matched with a supplier, has an interest to find and collaborate with a more efficient partner. However, supplier switching through search and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777613
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The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Void
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian - 2018
Over the last decades, the internationalization of the value chain has allowed firms to exploit cross-country differences in environmental and labor regulation (and enforcement) in ways that have led to a large number of NGO campaigns and consumer boycotts criticizing ‘unethical’ practices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815815
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On the organizational structure of multinational firms: Which sourcing mode for which Input?
Nowak, Verena; Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
Recent studies indicate that firms often outsource standard and simple tasks, while keeping complex and important inputs inside their boundaries. This observation is difficult to reconcile with the property rights approach of the firm, which suggests that important components should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282060
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Optimal Ownership and Firm Performance : An Analysis of China's FDI Liberalization
Eppinger, Peter; Ma, Hong - 2023
Seminal theories of the firm posit that firm ownership is allocated to minimize contractual inefficiencies. Yet, it remains unclear how much the optimal ownership choice affects firm performance in practice. This paper provides a first quantification of the gains from optimal ownership within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346399