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Service offshoring and export experience

Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Marcolin, Luca; Ornelas, Emanuel - 2021

Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of internationalization of firms. A new dataset on the participation of French firms in global value chains reveals that firms with longer export experience in a market are more likely to source...

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Global talent flows

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2016

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

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High-skilled migration and agglomeration

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2016

This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding...

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International outsourcing and the supply side productivity determinants

Grover, Arti (contributor) - 2007

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Asymmetries in global value chain integration, technology and employment structures in Europe : country and sectoral evidence

Bontadini, Filippo; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Meliciani, … - 2021

This paper provides empirical evidence on the complex role played by technology in affecting the relationship between the participation of EU countries and industries in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and their employment structure over the period 2000-2014. The empirical analysis is based on...

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Outsourcing without cost advantages

Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2023

both crucial for the emergence of outsourcing. The supplier purposefully avoids industry pro.t maximization to enlarge its …

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Vertical licensing, input pricing, and entry

Bakaouka, Elpiniki; Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2017

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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Supplier encroachment with mutual outsourcing

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Serfes, Konstantinos - 2023

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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Formal contracts, relational contracts, and the threat-point effect

Itō, Hideshi; Morita, Hodaka - 2011

Can formal contracts help resolving the holdup problem? We address this important question by studying the holdup problem in repeated transactions between a seller and a buyer in which the seller can make relation-specific investments in each period. In contrast to previous findings, we...

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Employee spinouts, social networks, and family firms

Rauch, James E. - 2013

Recently collected data show that, within any manufacturing industry, vertically integrated firms tend to have larger, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a weak contracting environment characteristic of...

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