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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium
Markusen, James R.; Strand, Bridget - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662176
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Modeling the Offshoring of White-Collar Services: From Comparative Advantage to the New Theories of Trade and FDI
Markusen, James R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white … characteristics of offshoring, and then use those models to identify the effects of technological or institutional changes which allow … offshoring of white-collar services to occur. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667130
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Expansion of Trade at the Extensive Margin: A General Gains-from-Trade Result and Illustrative Examples
Markusen, James R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
paper is motivated by recent evidence that trade has greatly expanded on the extensive margin (aka fragmentation, offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468576