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Management incentives, signaling effects and the costs of vertical integration
Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784303
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On the organizational structure of multinational firms : which sourcing mode for which input?
Südekum, Jens; Nowak, Verena Nina; Schwarz, Christian - 2012
organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the "indirect … outsourcing of the "less important" supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer … decides whether to offshore inputs. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; property rights approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009539235
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Relational contracts and the economic well-being of nations
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Pflüger, Michael - 2010
, Gibbons and Murphy (2002). -- aggregate welfare ; theory of the firm ; relational contracting ; firm heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314275
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Tax policy, location choices, and market structure
Pfann, Gerard A.; Kranenburg, Hans L. van - 2002
A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model's test is based on a unique nationwide fiscal experiment. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411458
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Managerial job assignment and imperfect competition in asymmetric equilibrium
Grossmann, Volker (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001743823
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Formality, informality, and social welfare
Bennett, John (contributor) - 2008
An industry is modeled in which entrepreneurs, who are heterogeneous in ability, may produce formally or informally. It is shown how the formal-informal mix depends on the distribution of ability, product demand and various parameter values. The industry equilibrium is compared to one in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003724143
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Disentangling the wage impacts of offshoring on a developing country : theory and policy
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2016
The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories in developing countries? Using a parsimonious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480815
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Trade policy and illegal immigration
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu (contributor);  … - 2005
We use a version of the Meade model to consider the effects of interdependent import tariffs in the presence illegal immigration. First, we consider the small union case and derive the Nash tariff equilibrium for two potential members of a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA). We analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002770697
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Offshoring and unemployment : the role of search frictions and labor mobility
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009
In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831894
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the …. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009300131