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Technology and Production Fragmentation : Domestic Versus Foreign Sourcing
Fort, Teresa - 2016
This paper provides direct empirical evidence on the relationship between technology and firms' global sourcing strategies. Using new data on U.S. firms' decisions to contract for manufacturing services from domestic or foreign suppliers, I show that a firm's adoption of communication technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984719
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One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation
Freeman, Richard B. - 2014
This paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver … of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific … the key component in productivity and growth, its spread and creation is the one ring of globalization that rules the more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063296
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Globalization and Inflation Dynamics : The Impact of Increased Competition
Sbordone, Argia M. - 2010
This paper analyzes the potential effect of global market competition on inflation dynamics. It does so through the lens of the Calvo model of staggered price-setting, which implies that inflation depends on expected future inflation and a measure of marginal costs. I modify the assumption of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759746
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Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2014
Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their … between globalization and innovation does not differ across the manufacturing and service sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751127
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Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
Autor, David H. - 2016
Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and 2010 congressional elections and the 2000, 2008, and 2016 presidential elections, we detect an ideological realignment that is centered in trade-exposed local labor markets and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982947
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The Welfare State and Competitiveness
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
In all modern industrial countries, redistributive expenditures are a larger component of the government budget than consumption of goods and services. In this paper, we use a general equilibrium, two- country model with exportables, importables and nontradables to study redistribution across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138851
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International Prices and Endogenous Quality
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2013
The unit values of internationally traded goods are heavily influenced by quality. We model this in an extended monopolistic competition framework where, in addition to choosing price, firms simultaneously choose quality. We allow countries to have non-homothetic demand for quality. The optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090428
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Comparative Advantage, Complexity and Volatility
Krishna, Pravin - 2009
Less developed countries tend to experience higher output volatility, a fact that is, in part, explained by their specialization in more volatile sectors. This paper proposes theoretical explanations for this pattern of specialization -- with the complexity of the goods playing a central role....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159737
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Infant-Industry Protection Reconsidered : the Case of Informational Barriers to Entry
Grossman, Gene M. - 2007
In industries with imperfect consumer information, the lack of a reputation puts latecomers at a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis established firms. We consider whether the existence of such informational barriers to entry provides a valid reason for temporarily protecting infant producers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777326
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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
Dippel, Christian - 2017
Instrumental variables (IV) are a common means to identify treatment effects. But standard IV methods do not allow us to unpack the complex treatment effects that arise when a treatment and its outcome together cause a second outcome of interest. For example, IV methods have been used to show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960515