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Global Sourcing and Multinational Activity : A Unified Approach

Antràs, Pol; Fadeev, Evgenii; Fort, Teresa C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Multinational firms (MNEs) accounted for 42 percent of US manufacturing employment, 87 percent of US imports, and 84 of US exports in 2007. Despite their disproportionate share of global trade, MNEs' input sourcing and final-good production decisions are often studied separately. Using newly...

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The Impact of AI and Cross-Border Data Regulation on International Trade in Digital Services : A Large Language Model

Sun, Ruiqi; Trefler, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and of cross-border restrictions on data flows has created a host of new questions and related policy dilemmas. This paper addresses two questions: How is digital service trade shaped by (1) AI algorithms and (2) by the interplay between AI algorithms and...

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Donor Contracting Conditions and Public Procurement : Causal Evidence from Kenyan Electrification

Wolfram, Catherine D.; Miguel, Edward; Hsu, Eric; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

There is limited causal evidence on the effects of different public procurement regulations on project quality and value-for-money for projects funded by national governments and foreign aid donors. This paper uses policy and experimental variation to study how two key contracting...

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Relational Contracts : Recent Empirical Advancements and Open Questions

Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Relational contracts - informal self-enforcing agreements sustained by repeated interactions - are ubiquitous both within and across organizational boundaries. This review highlights recent empirical contributions in selected areas. We begin by reviewing some recent work that explicitly takes...

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FDI Inflows and Domestic Firms : Adjustments to New Export Opportunities

McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina; Wong, Woan Foong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate the long-term effects of export opportunities to a large destination market on multinational affiliates and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on exports from Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry of...

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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States

Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …

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Supply Chain Resilience : Should Policy Promote Diversification or Reshoring?

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan; Lhuillier, Hugo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

reshoring or offshoring. When the demand elasticity rises with price, two policy instruments generally are needed to achieve …

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Telemigration and Development : On the Offshorability of Teleworkable Jobs

Baldwin, Richard E.; Dingel, Jonathan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has introduced huge numbers of employers and employees to remote work. How many of these newly remote jobs will go overseas? We offer a rough quantification based on two observations: 1) offshore work is trade in services, and 2) the number of telemigrants is the volume of...

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The International Price of Remote Work

Brinatti, Agostina; Cavallo, Alberto; Cravino, Javier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use data from a large web-based job platform to study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market. In the platform, workers from around the world compete for jobs that can be done remotely. We document that, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the...

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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan

Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Does the offshoring of production degrade or enhance the innovative capabilities of manufacturing firms? We contribute … products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … evidence of a second-order positive effect of offshoring on the levels of innovation--particularly product innovation--in other …

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