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in line with the predictions of our theory. In particular, we find that the share of short-term collaborations is higher …
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We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
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This paper develops an elementary theory of global supply chains. We consider a world economy with an arbitrary number …
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export their goods and whether to use imported intermediates. The model highlights mechanisms whereby import policies affect … counterfactual experiments to assess quantitatively the positive and normative effects of barriers to trade in import and export …. Furthermore, because of import and export complementarities, policies which inhibit the importation of foreign intermediates can …
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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...
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, where exports are classified as ordinary trade, import-and-assembly processing trade (processing firm sources and pays for …
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We develop a dynamic model of intermediate goods trade in which the pattern and the extent of intermediate goods trade are endogenous. We consider a small open economy whose final good production employs an endogenous array of intermediate goods, from low technology (high cost) to high...
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-proportions trade theory, Heckscher-Ohlin forces operate at the within-industry level, leading to endogenous variation in skill …
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We consider a monopolistic supplier’s optimal choice of wholesale tariffs when downstream firms are privately informed about their retail costs. Under discriminatory pricing, downstream firms that differ in their ex ante distribution of retail costs are offered different tariffs. Under uniform...
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We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and …
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