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International Trade, Flexible Manufacturing and Outsourcing
Eckel, Carsten - 2005
manufacturing and product specificity of in-house production. In this framework, globalization can lead to alternating waves of … insourcing and outsourcing, but once the world market reaches a threshold size, outsourcing prevails. We also derive a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296394
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International Trade, Flexible Manufacturing and Outsourcing
Eckel, Carsten - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2005
manufacturing and product specificity of in-house production. In this framework, globalization can lead to alternating waves of … insourcing and outsourcing, but once the world market reaches a threshold size, outsourcing prevails. We also derive a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954336
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Global Sourcing
Antras, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082766
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Does globalization lead to specialization?
Eckel, Carsten - 2003
economics. In contrast to previous studies, we illustrate that globalization does not necessarily lead to specialization. The … analysis is conducted in an extended Dixit-Stiglitz- Ethier framework. Whether globalization leads to specialization or to more … to the optimal degree of specialization we show that globalization can reduce the efficiency of the industrial structure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300141
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Does globalization lead to specialization?
Eckel, Carsten - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2003
economics. In contrast to previous studies, we illustrate that globalization does not necessarily lead to specialization. The … analysis is conducted in an extended Dixit-Stiglitz- Ethier framework. Whether globalization leads to specialization or to more … to the optimal degree of specialization we show that globalization can reduce the efficiency of the industrial structure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954300
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Does globalization lead to specialization?
Eckel, Carsten - Center for Globalization and Europeanization of the … - 2003
economics. In contrast to previous studies, we illustrate that globalization does not necessarily lead to specialization. The … analysis is conducted in an extended Dixit-Stiglitz- Ethier framework. Whether globalization leads to specialization or to more … to the optimal degree of specialization we show that globalization can reduce the efficiency of the industrial structure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635367
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Firm heterogeneity and imperfect competition in global production networks
Huang, Hanwei; Manova, Kalina; Perelló, Oscar; Pisch, Frank - 2024
We study the role of firm heterogeneity and imperfect competition for global production networks and the gains from trade. We develop a quantifiable trade model with two-sided firm heterogeneity, matching frictions, and oligopolistic competition upstream. More productive buyers endogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051741
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Vertical foreign direct investment : make, sell and (not) buy
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Sandonís, Joel - 2016
According to conventional wisdom, multinational firms undertake vertical FDI in order to take advantage of cross-border factor cost differences and source the inputs from abroad at better terms. Recent empirical findings though document that this is not always the case. We provide theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565578
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Outsourcing and vertical integration in a competitive industry
Ciliberto, Federico; Panzar, John C. - In: Southern economic journal 77 (2011) 4, pp. 885-900
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154876
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Outsourcing and Vertical Integration in a Competitive Industry
Ciliberto, Federico - 2012
We develop a partial equilibrium, perfectly competitive framework of a (potentially) vertically oriented industry. There are three types of firms: Upstream firms that use primary factors to produce an intermediate; downstream firms that use primary factors and intermediates to produce a final...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116872