Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 160
Cover Image
Contractual Frictions and Global Sourcing
Antras, Pol - 2007
reduce the relative prevalence of FDI or foreign outsourcing. The impact on the composition of offshoring depends on whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778138
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218970
Cover Image
Much Ado About Nothing : American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
Liu, Runjuan - 2013
We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … positive effects of inshoring and smaller negative effects of offshore outsourcing. The net effect is positive. To illustrate … how small the effects are, suppose that over the next nine years all of inshoring and offshore outsourcing grew at rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753588
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
The Margins of Global Sourcing : Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms
Antras, Pol - 2014
We develop a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model in which firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables. In contrast to canonical export models where firm profits are additively separable across destination markets, global sourcing decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039758
Cover Image
Going Soft : How the Rise of Software Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's it Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley
Arora, Ashish - 2014
This paper documents a shift in the nature of innovation in the information technology (IT) industry. Using comprehensive data on all IT patents granted by the USPTO from 1980-2002, we find strong evidence of a change in IT innovation that is systematic, substantial, and increasingly dependent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069641
Cover Image
Patents, Thickets, and the Financing of Early-Stage Firms : Evidence from the Software Industry
Cockburn, Iain M. - 2014
The impact of stronger intellectual property rights in the software industry is controversial. One means by which patents can affect technical change, industry dynamics, and ultimately welfare, is through their role in stimulating or stifling entry by new ventures. Patents can block entry, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751721
Cover Image
Entry and Patenting in the Software Industry
Cockburn, Iain M. - 2014
To what extent are firms kept out of a market by patents covering related technologies? Do patents held by potential entrants make it easier to enter markets? We estimate the empirical relationship between market entry and patents for 27 narrowly defined categories of software products during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752098
Cover Image
The Globalization of the Software Industry : Perspectives and Opportunities for Developed and Developing Countries
Arora, Ashish; Gambardella, Alfonso - 2022
The spectacular growth of the software industry in some non-G7 economies has aroused both interest and concern. This paper addresses two sets of inter-related issues. First, we explore the determinants of these successful stories. We then touch upon the broader question of what lessons, if any,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324030
Cover Image
U.S. V. Microsoft : Did Consumers Win?
Evans, David A.; Evans, David S.; Nichols, Albert L.; … - 2022
U.S. v. Microsoft and the related state suit filed in 1998 appear finally to have concluded. In a unanimous en banc decision issued in late June 2004, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to the remedies approved by the District Court in November 2002. The wave of follow-on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061553