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Trading Tasks : A Simple Theory of Offshoring
Grossman, Gene M. - 2006
focuses on tradable tasks and use it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country. We …
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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
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014670
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Watch What I Do, Not What I Say : the Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2010
This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using instruments that identify the...
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The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms
Kovak, Brian - 2017
We use firm-level data on U.S. multinationals to show how offshoring affects domestic employment within and across … firms. We introduce a new instrument for offshoring: Bilateral Tax Treaties, which reduce the cost of offshore activities … in employment at the U.S. parent firm, with smaller effects at the industry and regional levels. In contrast, offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945157
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Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing
Boehm, Christoph - 2019
U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870553
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Overseas Assembly and Country Sourcing Choices
Swenson, Deborah L. - 2021
This paper studies the cross-country pattern of U.S. overseas assembly activities between 1980 and 2000 to examine how outsourcing decisions are affected by changes in country and competitor costs. A number of interesting regularities emerge. When a country's costs rise, the share of U.S....
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Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China : Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm
Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021
In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We observe China's processing exports broken down by who owns the plant and by who controls the inputs the plant processes. Multinational firms engaged in export processing in China...
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Foreign Firms and Local Communities
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012
The literature on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on host-countries has been almost exclusively focused on issues of productivity, growth and wages. We argue that this leaves quite a bit of important unexplored areas of inquiry,...
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