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We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067585
We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150134
We study the determinants of the location of sub-contracted activity in a general equilibrium model of outsourcing and … trade. We model outsourcing as an activity that requires search for a partner and relationship-specific investments that are … governed by incomplete contracts. The extent of international outsourcing depends inter alia on the thickness of the domestic …
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We study the determinants of the location of sub-contracted activity in a general equilibrium model of outsourcing and … trade. We model outsourcing as an activity that requires search for a partner and relationship-specific investments that are … governed by incomplete contracts. The extent of international outsourcing depends inter alia on the thickness of the domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150131
We study the determinants of the location of sub-contracted activity in a general equilibrium model of outsourcing and … trade. We model outsourcing as an activity that requires search for a partner and relationship-specific investments that are … governed by incomplete contracts. The extent of international outsourcing depends inter alia on the thickness of the domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005435961
We present a North-South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral characteristics, firms decide whether to integrate into the...
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outsourcing decision, where only tangible property rights are considered. We argue therefore that the risk of imitation is a …
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outsourcing decision, where only tangible property rights are considered. We argue therefore that the risk of imitation is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819213
international outsourcing and "unethical" production are linked through a novel unethical outsourcing incentive, for which we also … the supplier's country favor international outsourcing (as opposed to vertical FDI). We also provide a microfounded model …
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I survey the influence of Grossman and Hart's (1986) seminal paper in the field of International Trade. I discuss the implementation of the theory in open-economy environments and its implications for the international organization of production and the structure of international trade flows. I...
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