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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms’ international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater … multinationals, are less likely to rely on imported or internally provided services. -- International trade ; services ; off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937886
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The influence of value-chain governance on innovation performance: a study of Italian suppliers
Brancati, Emanuele; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Mazzi, Caio Torres - 2021
This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products. We take advantage of a unique dataset of Italian firms to identify governance regimes along suppliers’ technological capabilities and the level of explicit coordination in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517678
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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018
-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a … competitiveness at the sectoral level for Germany, and compare the empirical evidence with selected other euro area countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853655
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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ migration duration and saving decisions
Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010
substitute consumption intertemporally. However, the empirical results from immigrants in Germany reveal that optimal migration … increases in ppp. -- International migration ; immigrant workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959295
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Why do firms recruit internationally? : results from the IZA International Employer Survey 2000
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001
recruiting internationally. A number of hypotheses for the international demand are formulated and assessed. Foreign highly …-skilled employees are recruited mainly because of their special skills, be it international competence or technical know-how, that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402988
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Producer protection legislation and termination damages in the presence of contracting frictions
Wu, Steven - 2009
This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894440
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Spillovers through backward linkages from multinationals : measurement matters!
Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2009
We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically produced inputs in the same proportion as imported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903185
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Outsourcing and technological change
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009
We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm’s expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932479
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Vertical industry relations, spillovers and productivity : evidence from Chilean plants
López, Ricardo A. (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2007
We use disaggregated data on Chilean plants, and the Chilean input-output table to examine the impact of agglomeration spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, we find evidence of intra-industry spillovers, but no evidence of cross-industry spillovers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557351
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Relational contracts and the economic well-being of nations
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Pflüger, Michael - 2010
Informal long-term relationships and mutual confidence play a crucial role in modern economies in at least two dimensions. First, the performance of firms is strongly affected by their capacity to solve organizational questions effectively and this capacity is apparently strongly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314275