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Global sourcing decisions and firm productivity : evidence from Spain

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2009

distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm's choice is … model. -- productivity ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; foreign direct investment ; incomplete contracts ; firm-level data …

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Offshoring and volatility of demand

Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm; Yalçin, Erdal - 2016

In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that … offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume … firm's employment decision in its domestic and offshore production. In this environment, offshoring is driven by …

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Offshoring and Volatility of Demand

Benz, Sebastian - 2016

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Global sourcing : evidence from Spanish firm-level data

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - In: Quantitative analysis of newly evolving patterns of …, (pp. 139-193). 2012

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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade : presented at Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Dissecting Globalization, July 2004

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time (intensive margin). But trade may also increase if a trading bilateral relationship is newly established between countries that have not traded with each other in the past...

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Does WTO Membership Make a Difference at the Extensive Margin of World Trade?

Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2007

In his seminal paper, Rose (2004) concluded from a gravity-type study of bilateral trade that the GATT/WTO does not play a strong role in encouraging trade. Rose looks at countries where the amount of trade was positive to start with (intensive margin). In this paper, we present a...

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WTO Membership and the Extensive Margin of World Trade : New Evidence

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2009

Recent literature has argued that, contrary to the results of a seminal paper by Rose (2004), WTO membership does promote bilateral trade, at least for developed economies and if membership includes non-formal compliance. We review the literature in order to identify open issues. We then develop...

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Exports, international investment, and plant performance : evidence from a non-parametric test

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003

This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...

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Immigration, trade and productivity in services : evidence from U.K. firms

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - 2016

country-specific offshoring, consistent with a reallocation of tasks and, finally, they increase country-specific exports …

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Wage inequality, linkages and FDI

Driffield, Nigel L.; Girma, Sourafel; Henry, Michael; … - 2010

This paper extends the existing literature on FDI and wage inequality. We do this in two ways. Firstly, we incorporate more precise measures of inward investment into the model, by allowing for differences in the effects between horizontal and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the...

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