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Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This Paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …

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Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice Between FDI and Outsourcing

Chen, Yongmin; Horstmann, Ignatius J; Markusen, James R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

There exist two approaches in the literature concerning the multinational firm's mode choice for foreign production between an owned subsidiary and a licensing contract. One approach considers environments where the firm is transferring primarily knowledge-based assets. An important assumption...

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Factoryless Goods Producers in the US

Bernard, Andrew B.; Fort, Teresa C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper documents the extent and characteristics of plants and firms in the US that are outside the manufacturing sector according to official government statistics but nonetheless are heavily involved in activities related to the production of manufactured goods. Using new data on...

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Reputation and Entry in Procurement

Butler, Jeff; Carbone, Enrica; Conzo, Pierluigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

There is widespread concern that favoring suppliers with good past performance, a standard practice in private procurement, may hinder entry by new firms in public procurement markets. In this paper we report results from a laboratory experiment exploring the relationship between reputation and...

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Privatization and Quality: Evidence from Elderly Care in Sweden

Bergman, Mats; Johansson, Per; Lundberg, Sofia; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Non-contractible quality dimensions are at risk of degradation when the provision of public services is privatized. However, privatization may increase quality by fostering performance-improving innovation, particularly if combined with increased competition. We assemble a large data set on...

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Intellectual Property Rights and Efficient Firm Organization

Ponzetto, Giacomo AM - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

manufacturers where IP rights are weaker, and a switch from integration to outsourcing over the product cycle. Empirical evidence on …

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Outsourcing, Offshoring and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-level Data for Emerging Economies

Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

It is striking that by far the lion's share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

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Subcontracting in International Asset Management: New Evidence on Market Integration

Massa, Massimo; Schumacher, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

determinants of outsourcing. Outsourcing fund management generates net positive gains to fund families of around 8-17 bp per month … improvements from outsourcing are directly related to segmentation in the underlying asset markets. …

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The Distorting Arm's Length Principle

Devereux, Michael P.; Keuschnigg, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

organizational choice between direct investment and outsourcing. Although it raises tax revenue and welfare in the headquarter …

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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 …

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