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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022
This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471205
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Trade policy uncertainty, offshoring, and the environment : evidence from US manufacturing establishments
Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023
pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540780
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FDI and Growth in East Asia: Lessons for Indonesia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2010
Foreign direct investment has been important in the economic growth and global economic integration of developing countries over the last decades. Both Northeast and Southeast Asia, especially the latter, have been part of this development with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320290
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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2011
This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the characteristics of the investing countries and the investments themselves. It also summarizes the findings of studies in individual countries of the effects of these investments. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320352
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Internalizing Global Value Chains : A Firm-Level Analysis
Alfaro, Laura - 2015
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457087
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Global Sourcing and Multinational Activity : A Unified Approach
Antràs, Pol; Fadeev, Evgenii; Fort, Teresa C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Multinational firms (MNEs) accounted for 42 percent of US manufacturing employment, 87 percent of US imports, and 84 of US exports in 2007. Despite their disproportionate share of global trade, MNEs' input sourcing and final-good production decisions are often studied separately. Using newly...
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The Impact of AI and Cross-Border Data Regulation on International Trade in Digital Services : A Large Language Model
Sun, Ruiqi; Trefler, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and of cross-border restrictions on data flows has created a host of new questions and related policy dilemmas. This paper addresses two questions: How is digital service trade shaped by (1) AI algorithms and (2) by the interplay between AI algorithms and...
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Offshoring and labor markets
Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452576
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The role of institutions and immigrant networks in firms' offshoring decisions
Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Pozzoli, Dario - 2018
The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms … probability. We also show that a firm's probability of offshoring increases with the share of its employees who are immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925424
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Offshoring and the decline of unions
Munch, Jakob Roland; Olney, William W. - 2024
factor. Offshoring jobs abroad may change the composition of domestic firms and employment and thus reduce union density … workers and firms in Denmark (1999-2017), which allows us to measure the exogenous threat of offshoring at the firm-level and … the unionization decisions of individual workers. The findings show that the threat of offshoring reduces unionization …
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