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Supply-Chain Trade : A Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses
Baldwin, Richard - 2013
since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China …
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Accounting for Chinese Trade : Some National and Regional Considerations
Fung, K.C. - 1996
China's trade has three features: high incidence of re-exports through Hong Kong, high degree of trade related to ….S. data and accounting for re-exports, the U.S.-China trade balance has to be lowered by 35 percent. Foreign investments in … China accounted for 45 percent of China's exports. Foreign investments include foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign …
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From Just in Time, to Just in Case, to Just in Worst-Case : Simple models of a Global Supply Chain under Uncertain Aggregate Shocks
Jiang, Bomin; Rigobon, Daniel E.; Rigobón, Roberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Covid-19 highlighted the weaknesses in the supply chain. Many have argued that a more resilient or robust supply chain is needed. But what does a robust supply chain mean? And how do firms' decisions change when taken that approach? This paper studies a very stylized model of a supply chain,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660023
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A Coasian Model of International Production Chains
Fally, Thibault - 2015
International supply chains require coordination of numerous activities across multiple countries and firms. We adapt a model of supply chains and apply it to an international trade setting. In each chain, the measure of tasks completed within a firm is determined by transaction costs and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457148
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FDI and Superstar Spillovers : Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Transactions
Amiti, Mary; Duprez, Cédric; Konings, Jozef; Van … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Despite competition concerns over the increasing dominance of global corporations, many argue that productivity spillovers from multinationals to domestic firms justify pro- FDI policies. For the first time, we use firm-to-firm transaction data in a developed country to examine the impact of...
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Microequity and Mutuality : Experimental Evidence on Credit with Performance-Contingent Repayment
Cordaro, Francesco; Fafchamps, Marcel; Mayer, Colin P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conduct the first field experiment of a performance-contingent microfinance contract. A large food multinational wishes to help micro-distributors in its supply chain with the financing of a productive asset. Working with the firm in Kenya, we compare asset financing under a traditional debt...
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Financial Crises and the Global Supply Network : Evidence from Multinational Enterprises
Basco, Sergi; Felice, Giulia; Merlevede, Bruno; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper empirically examines the effects of financial crises on the organization of production of multinational enterprises. We construct a panel of European multinational networks from 2003 through 2015. We use as a financial shock the increase in risk premia between August 2007 and July...
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Monetary Policy in an Era of Global Supply Chains
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2020
We study the implications of global supply chains for the design of monetary policy, using a small-open economy New Keynesian model with multiple stages of production. Within the family of simple monetary policy rules with commitment, a rule that targets separate producer price inflation at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479127
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Conceptual Aspects of Global Value Chains
Antràs, Pol - 2019
I offer an overview of some key conceptual aspects associated with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). I outline a series of alternative interpretations and definitions of what the rise of GVCs entails, and I trace the implications of these alternative conceptualizations for the measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480483
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Global Supply Chains in the Pandemic
Bonadio, Barthélémy - 2020
We study the role of global supply chains in the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on GDP growth for 64 countries. We discipline the labor supply shock across sectors and countries using the fraction of work in the sector that can be done from home, interacted with the stringency with which...
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