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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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Uncertainty about the level of demand is thought to influence irreversible capacity decisions. This paper examines some implications of the theory literature on this topic in an empirical study of the US cement industry between 1994 and 2006. Firms in this sector have the ability to deliver...
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-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …
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into foreign outsourcing. We show that multinational firms are able to shift profits abroad even if they fully comply with …
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-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …
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production to the other. In the country whose firms outsource production abroad, the government will respond to outsourcing by … the absence of outsourcing. The tax policy response by the government in the country that receives foreign production …
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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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We show that, even with flexible domestic wages, international outsourcing may worsen the welfare of the home country … and reduce the profits of all firms. If wages are rigid, outsourcing is welfare-improving if and only if the sum of the … subsidy may improve welfare. We also extend the model to a two-period framework. Delaying outsourcing can be gainful because …
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Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a model where Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments of production, I compare a trading...
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We study the various consequences of and the incentives for outsourcing. We argue that the wage elasticity of labour … demand increases as a function of the share of outsourcing, which is a result consistent with existing empirical research …. Furthermore, we show that a production mode with a higher proportion of outsourcing activity reduces the negotiated wage in the …
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