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Do exporting firms benefit from retail internationalization? : [evidence from France]

Cheptea, Angela; Emlinger, Charlotte; Latouche, Karine - 2015

We explore the link between globalization of the retail sector and the export activity of firms from their origin country. In a previous paper (Cheptea et al., 2015), we showed that exporting firms from countries with internationalized retail companies benefit more from this process than firms...

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Export or merge? : proximity vs. concentration in product space

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2013

This paper proposes a proximity-concentration tradeoff in product space as a determinant of horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms that enter a foreign market by exporting are able to capture consumer surplus from introducing a differentiated product with characteristics that the...

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Global production with export platforms

Tintelnot, Felix - 2014

Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational...

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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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IO for export(s)

Mrázová, Monika; Neary, J. Peter - 2019

We provide an overview and synthesis of recent work on models of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms in international trade, paying particular attention to competition effects, pass-through, selection effects, and linking distributions of firm characteristics and outcomes. A...

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Can multinationals withstand growing trade barriers?

Ghodsi, Mahdi; Vujanović, Nina; Landesmann, Michael - 2024

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly dealing with challenges shaped by the new geopolitical and trade environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary...

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Outsourcing, unemployment and welfare policy

Keuschnigg, Christian (contributor); … - 2008

The paper investigates the consequences of outsourcing of labor intensive activities to low-wage economies. This trend … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii …) it increases inequality among high- and low-income groups; and (iii) the gains from outsourcing can be made Pareto …

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Räumliche Wirkungen der Globalisierung in Deutschland

Lammers, Konrad - 1999

Die Globalisierung ist ein raumwirtschaftlicher Prozeß. Ursache für diesen Prozeß ist das Sinken räumlicher Transaktionskosten in einem umfassenden Sinne. Dadurch geraten regionale Produzenten einerseits unter Wettbewerbsdruck durch Anbieter aus anderen (Welt-) Regionen, andererseits...

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Insertion of Argentine firms in global value chains not oriented to the mass market : the cases of high-end footwear and the Basso group

González, Andrea; Hallak, Juan Carlos; Schott, Peter K.; … - 2012

This paper describes experiences of international insertion of Argentine producers of manufactured goods not oriented to the mass market. Based on these experiences, we develop a typology of potential alternatives of international insertion for this type of goods centered on the role of local...

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