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Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms

Rauch, James E. - 2013

Recently collected data show that, within any manufacturing industry, vertically integrated firms tend to have larger, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a weak contracting environment characteristic of...

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Globotics and Development : When Manufacturing is Jobless and Services are Tradable

Baldwin, Richard - 2020

Globalization and robotics (globotics) are transforming the world economy at an explosive pace. While much of the …

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Specialization : Pro- and Anti-globalizing, 1990-2002

Anderson, James E. - 2010

Specialization alters the incidence of manufacturing trade costs to buyers and sellers, with pro-and anti-globalizing effects on 76 countries from 1990-2002. The structural gravity model yields measures of Constructed Home Bias (the ratio of predicted local trade to predicted frictionless local...

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Globalization and Endogenous Firm Scope

Nocke, Volker - 2006

We develop a theory of multiproduct firms to analyze the effects of globalization on the distributions of firm size … have lower values of Tobin's Q than small firms. Second, it explains the globalization-skewness puzzle documented in the … our model, globalization not only affects the distribution of observed productivities but also productivity at the firm …

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Internationalized Production in Developed and Developing Countries and in Industry Sectors

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1998

Internationalized production, that is, production in a country controlled by firms based in another country, grew from about 4.5% of world output in 1970 to over 7% in 1995. The importance of internationalized output fell substantially in developing countries until around 1990 but has been been...

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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...

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Combinatorial Discrete Choice : A Quantitative Model of Multinational Location Decisions

Arkolakis, Costas; Eckert, Fabian; Shi, Rowan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We introduce a general quantifiable framework to study the location decisions of multinational firms. In the model, firms choose in which locations to pay the fixed costs of setting up production, taking into account potential complementarities among production locations. The firm's location...

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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan

Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Does the offshoring of production degrade or enhance the innovative capabilities of manufacturing firms? We contribute to this debate by exploiting a policy shock that differentially affected the ability of Taiwanese firms to offshore some products to China. We find causal evidence that...

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R&D Investment, Exporting, and Productivity Dynamics

Aw, Bee Yan - 2009

A positive correlation between productivity and export market participation has been well documented in producer micro data. Recent empirical studies and theoretical analyses have emphasized that this may reflect the producer's other investment activities, particularly investments in R&D or new...

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The Effects of Overseas Investment on Domestic Employment

Chen, Tain-Jy - 2003

In this paper, we study the effects of FDI on domestic employment by examining the data of Taiwan's manufacturing … employment is a combination of substitution and output effects. For Taiwan, the net effect is positive in most cases but it …

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