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Complementarity Among Vertical Integration Decisions : Evidence from Automobile Product Development
Novak, Sharon - 2014
This paper examines complementarity among vertical integration decisions in automobile product development. Though most research assumes that contracting choices are independent of each other, contracting complementarity arises when the returns to a single vertical integration decision are...
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What Goes on Under the Hood? How Engineers Innovate in the Automotive Supply Chain
Helper, Susan - 2016
generating innovation and economic growth. In this chapter, we seek to offer some description of engineering work by looking in … detail at a specific manufacturing industry—firms that supply automakers—to gain insight into how engineers create innovation … engineers, making the auto supply chain an important context in which to study engineering and innovation.Some highlights from …
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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the Us-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute
Krishna, Kala; Morgan, John - 2022
Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224940
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097267
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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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An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains
Costinot, Arnaud - 2011
This paper develops an elementary theory of global supply chains. We consider a world economy with an arbitrary number of countries, one factor of production, a continuum of intermediate goods, and one final good. Production of the final good is sequential and subject to mistakes. In the unique...
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Risks and Global Supply Chains : What We Know and What We Need to Know
Baldwin, Richard; Freeman, Rebecca - 2022
Recent supply disruptions catapulted the issue of risk in global supply chains (GSCs) to the top of policy agendas and created the impression that shortages would have been less severe if GSCs were either shorter and more domestic, or more diversified. But is this right? We start our answer by...
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Supply Chain Resilience : Evidence from Indian Firms
Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya - 2022
We characterize what features make supply chains more resilient. Using new data on the universe of firm-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we identify firms with larger supplier risk following the Covid-19 lockdowns. Using an event-study design we find firms with suppliers in...
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