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market place (outsourcing) …
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vertical integration and different performance margins. Outsourcing facilitates access to cutting-edge technology and the use …. Together, these effects highlight a crucial tradeoff: while outsourcing is associated with higher levels of initial performance …
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While outsourcing of production from the U.S. to Mexico has been hailed in Mexico as a valuable engine of growth … literature to study the second moment properties of outsourcing. We begin by documenting a new stylized fact: the maquiladora … outsourcing industries in Mexico experience fluctuations in value added that are roughly twice as volatile as the corresponding …
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Traditional explanations for indirect trade through an entrepot have focused on savings in transport costs and on the role of specialized agents in processing and distribution. We provide an alternative perspective based on the possibility that entrepots may facilitate tariff evasion. Using data...
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), foreign and domestic employees appear to be substitutes. For these firms, lower wages in affiliate locations are associated … associated with higher US manufacturing employment. These offsetting effects may be combined to show that offshoring is …
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relevant prevalence of outsourcing and foreign direct investment …
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In this paper, we estimate the benefits to countries that purchase goods from China of having access to intermediary services provided by Hong Kong. Traders in Hong Kong supply information on markets and producers in China, which provides welfare gains to foreign firms using these services....
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We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …
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, and this creates managerial overload, and discourages innovation. Outsourcing of some production activities mitigates the … frontier, the value of innovation increases, encouraging outsourcing …
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This paper explores potential realization of gains by hospitals that are managed on a day-to-day basis by external organizations under formal contracts. It draws from the incentives literature, which postulates that managers of firms where ownership is separated from control will employ an input...
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