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Technology and Production Fragmentation : Domestic versus Foreign Sourcing
Fort, Teresa C. - 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/10012456129
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One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation
Freeman, Richard B. - 2013
This paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver … of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific … the key component in productivity and growth, its spread and creation is the one ring of globalization that rules the more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459360
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Global Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion
Lind, Nelson; Ramondo, Natalia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a Ricardian model of trade in which countries innovate ideas that diffuse across the globe. In this model, the forces of innovation and diffusion combine to shape trade substitution patterns. Innovation makes a country technologically distinct, reducing their substitutability with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814404
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2008
Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their … between globalization and innovation does not differ across the manufacturing and service sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464166
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Globalization and Inflation Dynamics : the Impact of Increased Competition
Sbordone, Argia M. - 2007
This paper analyzes the potential effect of global market competition on inflation dynamics. It does so through the lens of the Calvo model of staggered price-setting, which implies that inflation depends on expected future inflation and a measure of marginal costs. I modify the assumption of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465091
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Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
Autor, David - 2016
Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and 2010 congressional elections and the 2000, 2008, and 2016 presidential elections, we detect an ideological realignment that is centered in trade-exposed local labor markets and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456043
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Globalization and Profitability of US Firms : The Role of Intangibles
Chintha, Bullipe R.; Jagannathan, Ravi; Sridhar, Sri S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
China's admission into the WTO in 2001 heralded a new era of globalization, increasing both import competition in … during the post globalization period (2003-2019) increased by 11.5% of the corresponding pre-globalization period (1984 … contrast, following globalization, the average aggregate domestic profitability of US firms remained flat, and firms employed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512056
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Globalization, Fertility and Marital Behavior in a Lowest-Low Fertility Setting
Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334338
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U.S. Wages in General Equilibrium : The Effects of Prices, Technology, and Factor Supplies, 1963-1991
Harrigan, James - 1999
technology, prices, and factor supplies. The model is based on the neoclassical theory of production, and is implemented by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471819
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Infant-Industry Protection Reconsidered : The Case of Informational Barriers to Entry
Grossman, Gene M. - 1987
In industries with imperfect consumer information, the lack of a reputation puts latecomers at a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis established firms. We consider whether the existence of such informational barriers to entry provides a valid reason for temporarily protecting infant producers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476910