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Egger, Hartmut - 2013

) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …

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Trade and the Internationalization of Production

Kleinert, Jörn - 2002

Whereas many empirical studies show that the internationalization of production is driven by falling distance costs, theoretical models of the endogenous emergence of multinational enterprises predict the opposite. This paper argues that this dichotomy can be resolved if the production process...

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Globalization of the World Economy: What Happened in 1985?

Kleinert, Jörn - 2000

This paper brings forward a three-country model to analyze the internationalization process in the age of globalization. It is shown that investment of one company increases not only the incentive to invest in another country for every national competitor but for third country's companies as...

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On the Coexistence of National Companies and Multinational Enterprises

Kleinert, Jörn - 2003

National and multinational companies coexist in many sectors of all developed countries. However, economic models fail to reproduce this fact because of the assumption of symmetry between companies. To show that the symmetry assumption is the reason for this failure, a two-country general...

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Trade and the internationalization of production

Kleinert, Jörn - 2002

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Globalization of the world economy : what happened in 1985?

Kleinert, Jörn - 2000

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Foreign sales strategies of multinational enterprises

Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2010

The business literature has long recognized the importance of multinationals’ distribution networks. The empirical analysis of distribution-oriented FDI has, however, received little attention which is at least partly due to the lack of appropriate data. We outline a slightly modified version...

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Growing trade in intermediate goods : outsourcing, global sourcing or increasing importance of MNE networks?

Kleinert, Jörn - 2000

explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the … outsourcing and global sourcing is found to be much weaker. …

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Offshoring tasks, yet creating jobs?

Kohler, Wilhelm K.; Wrona, Jens - 2010

of offshoring emphasized by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008) emerges as a vehicle of job creation. Improvements in the … technology of offshoring causes job losses at the extensive margin where ever more tasks are performed abroad, but it also causes … improvements in the technology of offshoring. …

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Offshoring tasks, yet creating jobs?

Kohler, Wilhelm; Wrona, Jens - 2011

The policy debate views offshoring as job destruction. Theoretical models of offshoring mostly assume full employment …-monotonic adjustment: Early stages of offshoring always lead to higher unemployment, while later stages may entail net job creation. We …

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