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Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2013

Which firms find it optimal to integrate their input suppliers into the firm boundaries of control (vertical integration)? Which firms choose to expand their sourcing activities across the national border (offshoring)? This letter provides novel evidence on these questions based on a Spanish...

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Global sourcing : towards an empirical test of the hold-up model ; conference paper

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2013

firm's productivity interacts with an industry's headquarter intensity in governing both dimensions of sourcing in the way …

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Information technology and global sourcing

Fromenteau, Philippe - 2016

This paper examines how IT influences global sourcing decisions. It develops a theoretical model to study how IT determines the decisions of firms located in the high-wage North whether to offshore production to a low-wage country in the South. Offshoring to South however is subject to costly...

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Exporting under financing constraints : firm-level evidence from EU countries

Murphya, Gavin; Siedschlagb, Iulia - 2016

firms' productivity. The sensitivity of exporting to access to external financing appears to be most important for young …

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Do multinational retailers affect the export competitiveness of host countries?

Cheptea, Angela - 2014

via an increase in their productivity. The growing competitive pressure in the upstream sector, induced by global retail … chains, drives least productive firms out of the market and the average productivity of the sector increases. In addition …, retail sector FDI generates productivity gains at the firm level: local suppliers of multinational retailers benefit from the …

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What determines whether preferential liberalization of barriers against foreign investors in services are beneficial or immizerising : application to the case of Kenya

Balistreri, Edward J.; Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G. - 2015

with Dixit-Stiglitz endogenous productivity effects from additional varieties. They specify a numerical model, with …

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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India’s Productivity Growth

Harrison, Ann E. - 2011

productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements (“learning”). The authors use … important role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However …, aggregate productivity gains during the overall 20-year period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average …

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Firms and Products in International Trade : Evidence from Hungary

Bekes, Gabor - 2011

This paper provides a detailed description of Hungarian trade data and key patterns drawn at the firm and product level. In the Bernard et al. (2007) tradition, statistics describe the prevalence of trading activity, typology of firms by internationalisation, and concentration of trade volume...

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Exporters and Importers of Services : Firm-Level Evidence on Italy

Federico, Stefano - 2012

trade is positively correlated with firm size and productivity; country-level variation is to a large extent explained by …

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Technology Spillovers from FDI : The Case of ASEAN

Yu, Ning - 2014

The effect of technology spillovers is widely considered as one of the main channels through which domestic firms benefit from FDI (Foreign Direct Investments), and plays an important role in economic development of host countries. FDI is expected to generate technology spillovers to indigenous...

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