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Vertical specialization and the changing nature of world trade
Hummels, David - In: Economic policy review 4 (1998) 2, pp. 79-99
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Vertical Specialization and the Quality of Infrastructure
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - 2006
This paper explores the role of infrastructural services in international outsourcing. Outsourcing in combination with lean supply management is sensitive to the timeliness of delivery and the fulfilment of quality standards, which in turn depend critically on the availability of infrastructure...
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Vertical specialization and the quality of infrastructure
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - 2004 - Manuscript date: December 2003
one is late or delivers a substandard product, it will delay the entire process or reduce the quality of the final product …
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Vertical Specialization and the Quality of Infrastructure
World Trade Organization - 2003
This paper explores the role of producer services and ICT on international outsourcing. The motivation for outsourcing is to focus on core business and improve efficiency and outsourcing companies usually outsource a number of functions and the efficiency gains depend on the ability for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012883932
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The great collapse in value added trade
Nagengast, Arne J.; Stehrer, Robert - 2015
This paper studies the great collapse in value added trade using a structural decomposition analysis. We show that changes in vertical specialisation accounted for almost half of the great trade collapse, while the previous literature on gross trade has mainly focused on final expenditure,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419613
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Global trade in final goods and intermediate inputs : impact of FTAs and reduced "border effects"
Franco-Bedoya, Sebastian; Frohm, Erik - 2020
International trade in manufacturing goods has risen strongly over the past decades, contributing to the expansion of global value chains (GVCs). This paper studies how two factors contributed to this rise since 1970: (i) declining "border effects" that are arguably related to the ICT revolution...
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Is China climbing up the quality ladder? : estimating cross country differences in product quality using Eurostat's COMEXT trade database
Pula, Gábor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011
advanced world, its export unit values are well below the level of developed economies. Building on the assumption that unit … imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China's export structure is very similar to that of the … be justified by its relatively low average prices, implying that the quality of Chinese export products is relatively …
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Is China Climbing Up the Quality Ladder? Estimating Cross Country Differences in Product Quality Using Eurostat's COMEXT Trade Database
Pula, Gabor - 2011
advanced world, its export unit values are well below the level of developed economies. Building on the assumption that unit … imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China's export structure is very similar to that of the … be justified by its relatively low average prices, implying that the quality of Chinese export products is relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129033
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Vertical Specialisation in Europe : Evidence from the Import Content of Exports
Breda, Emanuele - 2008
We use input-output tables to estimate the import content (IC) of exports for several European countries, interpreting …
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Inputs in distress : geoeconomic fragmentation and firms' sourcing
Panon, Ludovic; Lebastard, Laura; Mancini, Michele; … - 2024
We study how disruptions to the supply of foreign critical inputs (FCIs) - that is, inputs primarily sourced from extra-EU countries with highly concentrated supply, advanced technology products, or which are key to the green transition - might affect value added at different levels of...
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