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The Simple Economics of Open Source
Tirole, Jean; Lerner, Josh - 2021
There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many different locations and organizations sharing code to develop and refine programs. To an economist, the behavior of individual programmers and commercial companies engaged in open...
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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet
Bulman, George - 2016
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2011
multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics …
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Selection and Market Reallocation : Productivity Gains from Multinational Production
Alfaro, Laura - 2012
Assessing the productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and...
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Internalizing Global Value Chains : A Firm-Level Analysis
Alfaro, Laura - 2015
integration choices of firms around the world …
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Multilateralising Regionalism : Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade
Baldwin, Richard E. - 2007
motley assortment of regional trade agreements is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade … and uses it to structure a narrative of world trade liberalisation since 1947. The logic is then used to project the world … mechanism ndash; spaghetti bowls as building blocs ndash; whereby offshoring creates a force that encourages the …
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Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements
Antras, Pol - 2010
perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing … features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global …
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Offshoring in a Ricardian World
Rodriguez-Clare, Andres - 2010
offshoring in the short run and in the long run (when technology levels are endogenous). The short-run analysis shows that when … research efforts in response to increased offshoring. In particular, the rich country always gains from increased fragmentation …
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International Competitiveness and Monetary Policy : Strategic Policy and Coordination with a Production Relocation Externality
Bergin, Paul R. - 2013
Can a country gain international competitiveness by the design of optimal monetary stabilization rules? This paper reconsiders this question by specifying an open-economy monetary model encompassing a 'production relocation externality,' developed in trade theory to analyze the benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077221
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Price and Quality Dispersion in an Offshoring Market : Evidence from Semiconductor Production Services
Byrne, David M. - 2014
This paper studies price and quality differences across international intermediate input suppliers. We develop price measures that account for (i) differences in product characteristics, (ii) unobserved quality differences, and (iii) pure (frictional) price dispersion across suppliers. Using...
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