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Determinants of firms' inputs sourcing choices : the role of institutional and regulatory factors
Di Ubaldo, Mattia; Siedschlag, Iulia - 2018
Using the theoretical framework of global sourcing with firm heterogeneity, we examine determinants of inputs sourcing choices of manufacturing firms established in the EU countries. To this purpose, we combine information on the ownership structure and company accounts from the Orbis data set...
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Task dependence of U.S. service offshoring patterns
Püschel, Julia - 2012
This work offers new insights into the determinants of service offshoring across countries and across service … offshoring costs for all services, while the effects of other characteristics depend on the coordination requirements of the … effects of a membership in NAFTA, and a common colonial past on service offshoring patterns depend on the task content of the …
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U.S. multinationals and preferential market access
Blanchard, Emily; Matschke, Xenia - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between offshoring activity by U.S. multinational firms and the structure of U …, we find that offshoring multinational activity and preferential market access are positively and consistently correlated …
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U.S. Multinationals and Preferential Market Access
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between offshoring activity by U.S. multinational firms and the structure of U …, we find that offshoring multinational activity and preferential market access are positively and consistently correlated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104572
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Joint venture breakup and the exploration-exploitation trade-off
Long, Ngo Van; Soubeyran, Antoine; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2009
This paper explores the effect of a potential joint-venture breakup on the level of technology transfer in a set-up with exploration-exploitation trade-offs in the presence of time compression costs. We consider a joint-venture relationship between a technologically advanced multinational firm...
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Global collaborative patents
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
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Patent protection and the composition of multinational activity : evidence from US multinational firms
Ivus, Olena; Park, Walter Ginn; Saggi, Kamal - In: Journal of international business studies : JIBS ; an … 48 (2017) 7, pp. 808-836
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Export Prices of U.S. Firms
Harrigan, James - 2011
Using confidential firm-level data from the United States in 2002, we show that exporting firms charge prices for narrowly defined goods that differ substantially with the characteristics of firms and export markets. We control for selection into export markets using a three-stage estimator. We...
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The Influence of Foreign Direct Investment, Intrafirm Trading, and Currency Undervaluation on US Firm Trade Disputes
Jensen, J. Bradford - 2015
The authors investigate a puzzling decline in US firm antidumping (AD) filings in an era of persistent foreign currency undervaluations and increasing import competition. Firms exhibit heterogeneity both within and across industries regarding foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms making...
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Measuring 'Factoryless' Manufacturing : Evidence from US Surveys
Kamal, Fariha - 2013
"Factoryless" manufacturers, as defined by the U.S. OMB, perform underlying entrepreneurial components of arranging the factors of production but outsource all of the actual transformation activities to other specialized units. This paper describes efforts to measure "factoryless" manufacturing...
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