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Market Fragmentation
Chen, Daniel - 2020
We model a simple market setting in which fragmentation of trade of the same asset across multiple exchanges improves allocative efficiency. Fragmentation reduces the inhibiting effect of price-impact avoidance on order submission. Although fragmentation reduces market depth on each exchange, it...
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Outsourcing when Investments are Specific and Complementary
Lileeva, Alla - 2008
Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing … outsourcing less likely; (ii) complementarities between the investments of the buyer and the seller are also associated with less … outsourcing; (iii) property rights predictions on the link between investment intensities and optimal ownership are only supported …
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From Sectoral to Functional Urban Specialization
Duranton, Gilles - 2002
Striking evidence is presented of a previously unremarked transformation of urban structure from mainly sectoral to mainly functional specialization. We offer an explanation showing that this transformation is inextricably interrelated with changes in firms' organization. A greater variety of...
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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
Horton, John - 2017
-connected exchanges on digital platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for …
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Diasporas and Outsourcing : Evidence from oDesk and India
Ghani, Ejaz - 2012
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk … diaspora-based contracts mainly serve to lower costs for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are …
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From sectoral to functional urban specialization
Duranton, Gilles - 2001
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