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Cultural Distance, Firm Boundaries, and Global Sourcing

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Roland, Gérard - 2023

higher firm’s productivity …

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New Technologies, Global Value Chains, and the Developing Economies

Rodrik, Dani - 2019

Many of the exports of developing countries are channeled through global value chains (GVCs), which also act as conduits for new technologies. However, new capabilities and productive employment remain limited so far to a tiny sliver of globally integrated firms. GVCs and new technologies...

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Endogenous Spatial Production Networks : Quantitative Implications for Trade and Productivity

Panigrahi, Piyush - 2021

Larger Indian firms selling inputs to other firms tend to have more customers, tend to be used more intensively by their customers, and tend to have larger customers. Motivated by these regularities, I propose a novel empirical model of trade featuring endogenous formation of input-output...

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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2016

estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter’s productivity growth is …

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Comparative Advantage in (Non-)Routine Production

Archanskaia, Liza - 2020

We illustrate a new source of comparative advantage that is generated by countries' different ability to adjust to technological change. Our model introduces substitution of workers in codifiable (routine) tasks with more efficient machines, a process extensively documented in the labor...

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The bazaar effect, unbundling of comparative advantage, and migration

Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2007

equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration. …

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Global sourcing of complex production processes

Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - 2011

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...

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International Outsourcing and the Supply Side Productivity Determinants

Goswami, Arti Grover - 2021

, rent, energy consumption cannot appropriately determine a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm's productivity. Academic …A service provider firm in an outsourcing relationship is distinct from a typical firm because it is not a stand alone … perspective of the host country, the sourcing firm, the global outsourcing industry and of course the service provider firm. In …

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Service Offshoring and Export Experience

Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Ornelas, Emanuel; Marcolin, Luca - 2021

selling abroad. Because offshoring requires larger sunk costs than domestic sourcing, some firms decide to offshore only when … between the domestic and the foreign market are greater. In turn, offshoring firms sell greater volumes, display less …

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Globalization in the Time of COVID-19

Sforza, Alessandro - 2020

The economic effects of a pandemic crucially depend on the extend to which countries are connected in global production networks. In this paper we incorporate production barriers induced by COVID-19 shock into a Ricardian model with sectoral linkages, trade in intermediate goods and sectoral...

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