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Explaining Home Bias in Consumption : The Role of Intermediate Input Trade
Hummels, David L.; Hillberry, Russell H. - 2002
We show that 'home bias' in trade patterns will arise endogenously due to the co-location decisions of intermediate and final goods producers. Our model identifies four implications of home bias arising out of specialized industrial demands. Regions absorb different bundles of goods. Buyers and...
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Innovation and Productivity: a Firm Level Study of Ukrainian Manufacturing Sector
Vakhitova, Ganna; Pavlenko, Tetyana - Kyiv School of Economics - 2010
There is a large literature on innovation contribution to productivity for EU countries including CEE states. At the … make our study comparable. The modified CDM model considers not only companies that report formal innovation expenditures …, especially among small firms. Additionally, we allow dynamic two-direction relationship between productivity and innovation input …
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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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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742945
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395778
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Global Sourcing of a Complex Good
Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2011
We analyze a firm that produces a final good from multiple intermediates that can each be sourced domestically or from a low-wage country. The model explicitly incorporates that sourcing decisions of intermediates are interdependent. Equilibrium predictions depend crucially on a key modeling...
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Do imports of intermediate inputs generate higher productivity? : evidence from Ecuadorian manufacturing firms
Camino Mogro, Segundo; Pinzón, Kathia; … - 2020
International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the channel behind, the technology transfer from foreign companies to local firms. Focusing on imports, they can positively contribute to local firm's productivity performance by...
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International Financial Crises: Causes, Prevention, and Cures
Summers, Lawrence H. - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 2, pp. 1-16
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Firm Size and the Intensive Margin of Import Demand
Blaum, Joaquin - 2018
We use French microdata to test an ubiquitous property of firm-based models of importing. When firm efficiency is factor neutral and input prices and qualities are common across firms, firm size should have no effect on expenditure shares on the different products and varieties sourced, holding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931163
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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698346