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down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technology-related-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …
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privatization activity appears to be outsourcing. …
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primarily driven by outsourcing from downstream manufacturing _rms. We document that smaller and less innovative manufacturing …
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novelty of our approach is that it categorizes labor by occupations, which are invariant to outsourcing. We find that the …
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We explore the incentives of a vertically integrated incumbent firm to license the production technology of its core input to an external firm, transforming the licensee into its input supplier. We find that the incumbent opts for licensing even when licensing also transforms the licensee into...
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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protect firms from imitation and are considered crucial to promote innovation and technological diffusion. This paper examines the impact of IPR on import sourcing decisions of multinationals. We consider a framework in which firms offshore production of an...
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both crucial for the emergence of outsourcing. The supplier purposefully avoids industry pro.t maximization to enlarge its …
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core functions provided the cost of outsourcing is not too high. In this paper, we build a model to show how contraction in … out to say, India (abroad). We identify the conditions under which switching from pure domestic production to outsourcing …
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multiple complementary inputs and the entry of a supplier into the final good market gives rise to mutual outsourcing of inputs … between the encroaching supplier and the incumbent. We show that, post encroachment, mutual outsourcing between the competing … mutual outsourcing. Our analysis yields novel managerial, empirical and policy implications. …
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The paper investigates the consequences of outsourcing of labor intensive activities to low-wage economies. This trend … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii …) it increases inequality among high- and low-income groups; and (iii) the gains from outsourcing can be made Pareto …
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