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Supplier Relations and Adoption of New Technology : Results of Survey Research in the U.S. Auto Industry
Helper, Susan - 2021
Using an original data source, this paper investigates the circumstances under which firms adopt computer numerical control (CNC), an important type of flexible automation which can significantly increase productivity, product variety and quality. The paper shows that arms'-length...
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Global Sourcing
Antras, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021
We present a North South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral characteristics, firms decide whether to integrate into the...
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Outsourcing When Investments are Specific and Complementary
Lileeva, Alla - 2014
Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing … outsourcing less likely; (ii) complementarities between the investments of the buyer and the seller are also associated with less … outsourcing; (iii) property rights predictions on the link between investment intensities and optimal ownership are only supported …
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Outsourcing Price Decisions : Evidence from U.S. 9802 Imports
Swenson, Deborah L. - 2021
appear to condition outsourcing decisions. The data for 1991-2000 show that U.S. overseas assembly imports were characterized … educated countries passed-through a much larger portion of their cost changes. In addition, the price of outsourcing imports … differential price responses suggest that information issues play an important role in the mediation of outsourcing relationships …
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Production Chains
Levine, David K. - 2010
More advanced technologies demand higher degrees of specialization - and longer chains of production connecting raw inputs to final outputs. Longer production chains are subject to a "weakest link" effect: they are more fragile and more prone to failure. Optimal chain length is determined by the...
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Tracing Value-Added and Double Counting in Gross Exports
Koopman, Robert - 2012
This paper proposes a framework for gross exports accounting that breaks up a country's gross exports into various value-added components by source and additional double counted terms. By identifying which parts of the official trade data are double counted and the sources of the double...
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Supply-Chain Trade : A Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses
Baldwin, Richard - 2013
The trade linked to international production networks - supply-chain trade for short - is associated with momentous global economic changes. This paper presents a portrait of the global pattern of supply-chain trade and how it has evolved since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources...
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Who Should Pay for Credit Ratings and How?
Kashyap, Anil K. - 2013
We analyze a model where investors use a credit rating to decide whether to finance a firm. The rating quality depends on unobservable effort exerted by a credit rating agency (CRA). We study optimal compensation schemes for the CRA when a planner, the firm, or investors order the rating. Rating...
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Industrial Policy and Downstream Export Performance
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2013
Industrial policies (IPs) include such varying practices as production subsidies, export subsidies, and import protection, and are commonly used by countries to promote targeted sectors. However, such policies can have significant impacts on sectors other than those targeted by the IPs,...
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A Theory of the Firm Based on Partner Displacement
Hellmann, Thomas F. - 2014
We develop a new theory of the firm where asset owners sometimes want to change partners ex-post. The model identifies a fundamental trade-off between (i) a "displacement externality" under non-integration, where a partner leaves a relationship even though the benefit is worth less than the loss...
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