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A simple model of outsourcing with Cournot competition

Hübler, Michael (contributor) - 2007

The paper analyses a partial equilibrium outsourcing model with Cournot competition in intermediate good production …. Final production is located in western Europe, whereas the intermediate good can be manufactured by a western (outsourcing …) or eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). Interregional production (factor) allocation depending on factor …

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Services outsourcing and innovation : an empirical investigation

Görg, Holger (contributor); Hanley, Aoife (contributor) - 2008

We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …

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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018

We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws in the current...

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Inventory control and intermediation in global supply chains

Zhan, Qu; Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2015

The paper develops a simple theoretical model of inventory control in global supply chains. It identifies a role for intermediaries in managing inventory, and shows that inserting an intermediary as an additional link in a supply chain is profitable when demand volatility is high. It also...

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Foreign direct investment and environmental taxes

De Santis, Roberto A.; Stähler, Frank - 2000

This paper discusses environmental policies in response to foreign direct investment (FDI) in a symmetrie two-country setting, where firms' behavior affects government policy decisions. We show that two alternative equilibria with FDI are possible: (i) one with unilateral FDI, where one firm is...

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Trade and the internationalization of production

Kleinert, Jörn - 2002

Whereas many empirical studies show that the internationalization of production is driven by falling distance costs, theoretical models of the endogenous emergence of multinational enterprises predict the opposite. This paper argues that this dichotomy can be resolved if the production process...

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Globalization of the world economy : what happened in 1985?

Kleinert, Jörn - 2000

This paper brings forward a three-country model to analyze the internationalization process in the age of globalization. It is shown that investment of one company increases not only the incentive to invest in another country for every national competitor but for third country's companies as...

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Cross-border mergers and Greenfield foreign direct investment

Stepanok, Ignat - 2012

I present a model of international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), where FDI is comprised of greenfield FDI and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Working in a monopolistically competitive environment, merging firms do not reduce competition. Mergers are motivated by efficiency gains and...

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Multinational firms and heterogeneous labor

Larch, Mario (contributor); Lechthaler, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008

In the presence of increasing specialization of workers it becomes more and more difficult for firms to find the most suitable workers. In such an environment a multinational corporation has an advantage because it can exchange workers between plants in different countries. In this way it can...

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Growing trade in intermediate goods : outsourcing, global sourcing or increasing importance of MNE networks?

Kleinert, Jörn - 2000

explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the … outsourcing and global sourcing is found to be much weaker. …

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