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Outsourcing in a Global Economy
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2002
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
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Outsourcing in a Global Economy
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2002
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
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Outsourcing Versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium
Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
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
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Outsourcing versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2002
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
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Outsourcing versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2002
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/10005435963
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Outsourcing in a Global Economy
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2010
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/10014107112
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FDI, International Outsourcing and Linkages
Altomonte, Carlo; Bonassi, Chiara - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2004
We investigate the trade-off between FDI and international outsourcing of interme-diate inputs by a producer of a final … subsidiaries and the latter are heterogeneous in productivity levels. We relate the resulting trade-off between outsourcing and FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087125
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Profit Reducing Outsourcing
Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2005
Recent empirical evidences show negative relationship between outsourcing and profitability. This paper provides a … theoretical explanation for this phenomenon. In an oligopoly model, we show that firms earn lower profits in the outsourcing … equilibrium compared to the situation where neither firm does outsourcing, and it holds irrespective of the intensity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060739
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Global Sourcing
Antràs, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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/10005788904
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Organizational decisions in multistage production processes : conference paper
Nowak, Verena Nina - 2014 - Very preliminary
To explain organizational decisions in multistage production processes we assume a production process with one producer and two suppliers of which one is the firm's direct supplier and the other one is the supplier of the supplier. The firm decides only on the organizational form of her direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491155