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Local Global Watchdogs : Trade, Sourcing and the Internationalization of Social Activism

Koenig, Pamina; Krautheim, Sebastian; Löhnert, Claudius; … - 2021

feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts …

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Think Global, Act Local! A Mechanism for Global Commons and Mobile Firms

Ahlvik, Lassi - 2019

It is tricky to design local regulations on global externalities, especially so if firms are mobile. We show that when costs and outside options are firms’ private information, the threat of firm relocation leads to local regulations that are stricter, not looser. This result is general and...

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Globally Engaged Firms in the COVID-19 Crisis

Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; … - 2022

This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...

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Technology Transfer in Global Value Chains

Sampson, Thomas - 2022

Firm-to-firm relationships in global value chains create opportunities for North-South technology diffusion. This paper studies technology transfer in value chains when contracts are incomplete and input production technologies are imperfectly excludable. The paper introduces a new taxonomy of...

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A Simple Model of Buyer-Seller Networks in International Trade

Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Sauré, Philip U. - 2021

The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network …

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Cultural Distance, Firm Boundaries, and Global Sourcing

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

Casual observation suggests that cultural differences play an important role in business transactions, yet systematic evidence on this relationship is scarce. This paper provides a novel investigation of the effect of cultural distance on multinational firms’ decisions to integrate their...

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How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity

Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2021

How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to disentangle various mechanisms such as the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs as well as productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge...

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Ties

Revelli, Federico - 2019

This paper investigates whether the rare occurrence of a local election ending in a tie or being decided by a single vote generates informational spill-overs on nearby localities' subsequent elections. First, based on the pivotal-voter theory, we develop a model of costly instrumental voting in...

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The Dynamics of Networks and Homophily

Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen; Snowberg, Erik; … - 2023

, and different network layers. At the individual level, homophilous tendencies are persistent across time and network … those characteristics. We also document the nuanced impact of network connections on changes in Grade Point Average …

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The old-boy network and the quality of entrepreneurs

Bac, Mehmet; Inci, Eren - 2010

We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub … firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs' types. Network membership is observable, which … allows lenders to offer different interest rates to network and stand-alone entrepreneurs. We show that a network outcome can …

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