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Offshoring in a Ricardian World
Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - 2007
offshoring in the short run and in the long run (when technology levels are endogenous). The short-run analysis shows that when … research efforts in response to increased offshoring. In particular, the rich country always gains from increased fragmentation …
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Misfits in the Car Industry : Offshore Assembly Decisions at the Variety Level
Head, Keith - 2019
than 2000 models of 197 car brands headquartered in 23 countries. While offshoring in the car industry has risen from 2000 … to 2016, the top five offshoring brands account for half the car assembly relocated to low-wage countries. We show that …
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Integration, Specialization, and the Adjustment
Krugman, Paul - 1993
In the United States, many industries have a Silicon Valley-type geographic localization. In Europe, these same … the possibility that Europe will develop an American-style economic geography. This paper uses a theoretical model of …
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How Does Outsourcing Affect Performance Dynamics? Evidence from the Automobile Industry
Novak, Sharon - 2007
This paper examines the impact of vertical integration on the dynamics of performance over the automobile product development lifecycle. Building on recent work in organizational economics and strategy, we evaluate the relationship between vertical integration and different performance margins....
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Complementarity Among Vertical Integration Decisions : Evidence from Automobile Product Development
Novak, Sharon - 2007
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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Corrective Policy and Goodhart's Law : The Case of Carbon Emissions from Automobiles
Reynaert, Mathias - 2016
Firms sometimes comply with externality-correcting policies by gaming the measure that determines policy. We show theoretically that such gaming can benefit consumers, even when it induces them to make mistakes, because gaming leads to lower prices by reducing costs. We use our insights to...
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What Drives Home Market Advantage?
Cosar, A. Kerem - 2015
In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and...
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The International Linkage of Real Interest Rates : The European - U.S. Connection
Cumby, Robert E. - 1984
rates has been widespread in the analyses by economic policymakers both in Europe and in the United States. In this paper we … been raised by the recent policy debates in Europe and the United States: Have ex ante real rates in the United States and … Europe been high during recent years? Has there been a link between U.S. real rates and those in other countries? Can this …
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Patents as Options : Some Estimates of the Value of Holding European Patent Stocks
Pakes, Ariel - 1984
In many countries holders of patents must pay an annual renewal fee in order to keep their patents in force. This paper uses data on the proportion of patents renewed, and the renewal fees faced by, post World War II cohorts of patents in France, the United Kingdom, and Germany, in conjunction...
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The Heights of Europeans Since 1750 : A New Source For European Economic History
Floud, Roderick - 1984
Economic and social historians have traditionally been concerned to measure changes in the income and welfare of populations in the past.Until recently, however, they have not recognized that anthropometric data, such as evidence on the average height achieved by a population at a particular...
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