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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...

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Supply Chain Resilience : Should Policy Promote Diversification or Reshoring?

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan; Lhuillier, Hugo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

reshoring or offshoring. When the demand elasticity rises with price, two policy instruments generally are needed to achieve …

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Task Trade between Similar Countries

Grossman, Gene M. - 2008

be performed at home or abroad, but offshoring entails costs that vary by task. In equilibrium, the tasks with the … highest offshoring costs may not be traded. Among the remainder, those with the relatively higher offshoring costs are …

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Trading Tasks : A Simple Theory of Offshoring

Grossman, Gene M. - 2006

tradable tasks and use it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country. We identify a …

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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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Incomplete Contracts and Industrial Organization

Grossman, Gene M. - 1999

We develop an equilibrium model of industrial structure in which the organization of firms is endogenous. Differentiated consumer products can be produced either by vertically integrated firms or by pairs of specialized companies. Production of each variety of consumer good requires a unique,...

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Managerial Incentives and the International Organization of Production

Helpman, Elhanan - 2002

relevant prevalence of outsourcing and foreign direct investment …

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Outsourcing versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium

Grossman, Gene M. - 2002

We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …

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Outsourcing in a Global Economy

Grossman, Gene M. - 2002

We study the determinants of the location of sub-contracted activity in a general equilibrium model of outsourcing and … trade. We model outsourcing as an activity that requires search for a partner and relationship-specific investments that are … governed by incomplete contracts. The extent of international outsourcing depends inter alia on the thickness of the domestic …

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