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Offshoring along the Production Chain
Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter M. - CESifo - 2009
Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196266
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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect: Evidence from the European Union
Román, Valeriano Martínez-San; Bengoa, Marta; … - CESifo - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern –horizontal versus vertical– within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790167
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How Firms Export : Processing vs. Ordinary Trade with Financial Frictions
Manova, Kalina - 2016
The fragmentation of production across borders allows firms to make and export final goods, or to perform only intermediate stages of production by processing imported inputs for re-exporting. We examine how financial frictions affect companies' choice between processing and ordinary trade –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994784
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A Closer Look at Revealed Comparative Advantage : Gross-versus Value Added Trade Flows
Brakman, Steven - 2015
With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade policy, value added data tell us what fragment in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023177
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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect : Evidence from the European Union
Martinez-San Roman, Valeriano - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern – horizontal versus vertical – within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051267
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Managing Trade : Evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas - 2019
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First, better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898431
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World-Trade Growth Accounting
Egger, Peter H. - 2016
into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect … productivity growth, and endogenous changes in expenditures shares on manufacturing goods and services. We quantify the importance … accumulation and trade costs have been the most important drivers of trade in the sample at hand, whereas productivity growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994081
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Explaining the Size Differences of Exporter Productivity Premia : Theory and Evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - 2014
Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057657
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Global Sourcing Decisions and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Spain
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - CESifo - 2009
We investigate the link between productivity of firms and their sourcing behavior. Following Antràs & Helpman (2004) we … distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm’s choice is … productivity premia associated with the different sourcing strategies. We find strong empirical support for the predictions of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572568
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Offshoring along the Production Chain
Harms, Philipp - 2009
Recent contributions on off shoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764740