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We use Spanish firm-level data to test the hold-up model of global sourcing proposed by Antr s & Helpman (2004). We propose a novel representation of the model which guides us in bringing the theory to the data. We estimate a discrete choice model of firms' sourcing behavior, separately for the...
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This paper is a dynamic extension of the well-known theory of trade in tasks. In my model, a firm's offshoring decision … reduces the level of offshoring compared to a static optimization and that adjustment of offshoring volume with respect to … changes in offshoring costs or labor endowment is characterized by overshooting and subsequent movement toward a steady state …
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Deutschland: Auch in Deutschland lässt sich Geld verdienen! -- Outsourcing und Offshoring als strategische Handlungsalternativen … -- Effekte des In- und Outsourcing in einem systemdynamischen Modell strategischer Fähigkeiten -- Offshoring: Analyse der … Produktionsverlagerungen und Outsourcing begleitet. In der Praxis überdeckte jedoch der starke Kostenbezug bei Offshoring- und Outsourcing …
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reorganize to more decentralized management improving competitiveness of offshoring firms. We show further that offshoring of … level of decentralization and CEO wages of offshoring firms. In sufficiently open economies, however, managerial offshoring …
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To explain organizational decisions in multistage production processes we assume a production process with one producer and two suppliers of which one is the firm's direct supplier and the other one is the supplier of the supplier. The firm decides only on the organizational form of her direct...
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Legalized parallel trade implies that an original manufacturer cannot control a retailer in a foreign country once the latter has ordered its sales quantity and has compensated the former. This paper endogenizes the role of the retailer as an agent who has private information on the perceived...
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We derive a simple equation for the welfare gains from trade when tariffs are liberalized or iceberg trade costs fall. Covering various one-sector trade models that may or may not feature extensive margins and imperfect competition, we generalize the analysis of Arkolakis, Costinot and...
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We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard. Mitigating financial frictions reduces the incentive of high-skilled workers to migrate to one region such that an unequal distribution of industrial activity becomes less...
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How shifts in the economic leadership between countries can occur has been widely debated not only since the recent catch up of China in several sectors. However, there is no adequate theoretical model analyzing this question in the light of trade liberalization. This paper is the first one to...
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