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Chapter 2. Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade
Antràs, Pol; Yeaple, Stephen R. - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 55-130). 2014
This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025384
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - 2011
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277412
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2013
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010213481
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R&D (re)location: A bird's eye (re)view
Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.; Squicciarini, Mariagrazia; … - 2008
The paper builds a framework for the analysis of research and development (R&D) offshoring and outsourcing that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273492
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Escaping to the east? : relocation of business activities to and from Hungary, 2003 - 2011
Hunya, Magdolna Sass-Gábor - 2014
While the increased frequency of relocation of productive capacities to lower wage countries from developed economies has given rise to discussions concerning job losses and de-industrialisation, developments in the host countries of relocation have been widely neglected. Hungary, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252180
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Multinational firms' organisational dynamics : competition intensity and the ownership decision under uncertainty
Navarro, Leandro Gastón - 2021
increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332242
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Export-magnification effect of offshoring
Kleinert, Jörn; Zorell, Nico - 2010
between offshoring and exports. We model a world consisting of many advanced countries that trade differentiated goods among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271466
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Intellectual property rights, product complexity, and the organization of multinational firms
Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - 2013
down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technology-related-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199759
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Intellectual property rights, multinational firms and technology transfers
Biancini, Sara; Bombarda, Pamela - 2017
the intermediate from vertically integrated producers, or from independent suppliers. In both cases, offshoring part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761570
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2011
firms that are consistent with stylized facts from the recent empirical literature. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing … ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273125