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Technology Transfer in Global Value Chains
Sampson, Thomas - 2022
Firm-to-firm relationships in global value chains create opportunities for North-South technology diffusion. This paper studies technology transfer in value chains when contracts are incomplete and input production technologies are imperfectly excludable. The paper introduces a new taxonomy of...
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Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation : Cross-Country Evidence
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
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Decoupling Global Value Chains
Eppinger, Peter; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Krebs, Oliver; … - 2021
Recent disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) have raised an important question: Can decoupling from GVCs increase a country’s welfare by reducing its exposure to foreign supply shocks? We use a quantitative trade model to simulate GVCs decoupling, defined as increased barriers to global...
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COVID-19 shocking global value chains
Eppinger, Peter S.; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Krebs, Oliver; … - 2021
(in contrast to final goods trade) in transmitting the shock. In a hypothetical world without GVCs, the welfare loss due …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315297
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Think Global, Act Local! A Mechanism for Global Commons and Mobile Firms
Ahlvik, Lassi - 2019
It is tricky to design local regulations on global externalities, especially so if firms are mobile. We show that when costs and outside options are firms’ private information, the threat of firm relocation leads to local regulations that are stricter, not looser. This result is general and...
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Multinational Production and Global Shock Propagation During the Great Recession
Li, Haishi - 2023
. The MP links significantly amplified the impact of these shocks on the rest of the world, which had a much greater impact …
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Local Global Watchdogs : Trade, Sourcing and the Internationalization of Social Activism
Koenig, Pamina; Krautheim, Sebastian; Löhnert, Claudius; … - 2021
feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts …
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Globally Engaged Firms in the COVID-19 Crisis
Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana M.; Poupakis, … - 2022
This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...
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Slavery, Corruption, and Institutions
Rauscher, Michael - 2019
economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies … reducing slavery in the export industry tend to raise slavery in the remainder of the economy. It is possible that this leakage … effect dominates the reduction of slavery in the export sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859047
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New Technologies, Global Value Chains, and the Developing Economies
Rodrik, Dani - 2019
Many of the exports of developing countries are channeled through global value chains (GVCs), which also act as conduits for new technologies. However, new capabilities and productive employment remain limited so far to a tiny sliver of globally integrated firms. GVCs and new technologies...
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