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Preferential trade agreements and global sourcing
Ornelas, Emanuel; Turner, John L.; Bickwit, Grant - 2018
We study how a preferential trade agreement (PTA) affects international sourcing decisions, aggregate productivity and … from the investment. This raises aggregate productivity. On the other hand, the agreement yields sourcing diversion. More … tariff tips it toward harmful sourcing diversion. A PTA also affects the structure of vertical chains in the economy. As …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927909
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The costs and benefits of rules of origin in modern free trade agreements
Ornelas, Emanuel; Turner, John L. - 2022
those suppliers it does affect, the rule increases investment, but it also induces excessive sourcing (for given investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362760
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Relational contracts and supplier turnover in the global economy
Defever, Fabrice; Fischer, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2015
chains. In this paper, we develop a dynamic property rights model of global sourcing. A domestic headquarter collaborates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308523
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Holdups, quality choice, and the Achilles' heel in government contracting
Bös, Dieter; Lülfesmann, Christoph - 2001
This paper investigates a procurement relationship between a welfare-oriented government and a private supplier. The agents face several versions of the trading good which differ in quality and production costs, and the differences between those items are undescribable ex ante. In presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539057
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Supplier search and re-matching in global sourcing : theory and evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Fischer, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2017
In this paper, we consider a dynamic search-and-matching problem of a firm with its intermediate input supplier. In our model, a headquarter currently matched with a supplier, has an interest to find and collaborate with a more efficient partner. However, supplier switching through search and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754216
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Supplier search and re-matching in global sourcing : theory and evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Fischer, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2017
In this paper, we consider a dynamic search-and-matching problem of a firm with its intermediate input supplier. In our model, a headquarter currently matched with a supplier, has an interest to find and collaborate with a more efficient partner. However, supplier switching through search and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741420
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Incomplete contract and divisional structures
Te, Bao; Wang, Yongqin - 2009
In this paper we want to analyze the internal divisional structure within an organi-zation in the framework of incomplete contract theory. We use the framework of Aghionand Tirole (1997) and define the managerial control structure as sequence of search.A key feature of this paper which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378948
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Optimal hierarchies with diverse decision-makers
Puschke, Kerstin (contributor) - 2007
We analyze the optimal decision-making hierarchy in an organization when decision-makers of limited liability have preferences conflicting with the organization's objective and exert externalities on their counterparts. In a horizontal hierarchy, every decision is made by a different agent. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003526226
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Bounded rationality as an essential component of the holdup problem
Erlei, Mathias; Roß, Wiebke - 2013 - Version: October 2014
We provide experimental evidence for the hypothesis that bounded rationality is an important element of the theory of the firm. We implement a simplified version of a mechanism designed to perfectly solve the holdup problem under conditions of perfect rationality (Maskin 2002). We test whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481408
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Bounded rationality as an essential component of the holdup problem
Erlei, Mathias; Roß, Wiebke - 2015 - Version: October 2014
We provide experimental evidence for the hypothesis that bounded rationality is an important element of the theory of the firm. We implement a simplified version of a mechanism designed to perfectly solve the holdup problem under conditions of perfect rationality (Maskin 2002). We test whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473824