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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms’ international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm's productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932606
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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms' international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937283
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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms’ international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937886
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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce : How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
Debaere, Peter Marcel - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm's productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148078
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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce : How Services Facilitate Firm's International Sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2021
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316255
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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce : How Services Facilitate Firms’ International Sourcing
Görg, Holger; Debaere, Peter; Raff, Horst - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198320
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A Simple Model of Buyer-Seller Networks in International Trade
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Sauré, Philip U. - 2021
The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network. We propose a simplistic re-interpretation of the classical Krugman (1980) model that accounts for surprisingly many of the empirical regularities. This re-interpretation relies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224077
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A simple model of buyer-seller networks in international trade
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Sauré, Philip - 2021
The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network. We propose a simplistic re-interpretation of the classical Krugman (1980) model that accounts for surprisingly many of the empirical regularities. This re-interpretation relies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534686
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Global sourcing of heterogeneous firms : theory and evidence
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2015
This paper investigates the role of firm productivity in drawing firm boundaries in global sourcing. Our analysis focuses on how productivity affects the allocation of ownership rights between the headquarter of a firm and an intermediate input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476678
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, 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/10009273125