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Global Sourcing of Heterogeneous Firms : Theory and Evidence
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2015
input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as well as the location of intermediate input production (offshore vs … intensity, but favors outsourcing in industries of high sourcing intensity. Moreover, we find that productivity boosts … offshoring throughout all industries, with the effect increasing monotonically in the sourcing intensity. Our results lend strong …
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World Market Access of Emerging-Market Firms : The Role of Foreign Ownership and Access to External Finance
Raff, Horst - 2013
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...
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Offshoring and Skill-Upgrading in French Manufacturing : A Heckscher-Ohlin Melitz View
Carluccio, Juan - 2015
fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor … 2007, we provide empirical support for the factor proportions channel through which offshoring to labor-abundant countries …
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Managing Trade : Evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas - 2019
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First, better...
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Multilateral Investment Agreement in a Political Equilibrium
Urban, Dieter M. - 2006
This study provides a theoretical explanation, first, as to why some less-developed countries (LDCs) have complained about the OECD negotiations of a multilateral investment agreement (MAI) in 1998 although they were free to join or opt out. Second, it explains why we observe instead an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779092
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Redistributive Income Taxation under Outsourcing and Foreign Direct Investment
Aronsson, Thomas - 2010
This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax … response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143345
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Green Havens and Pollution Havens
Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021
We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that...
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Off-Shoring and Productivity Growth in the Italian Manufacturing Industries
Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - 2021
We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry ("narrow … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way …
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Institutions and Offshoring Decision
Nicolini, Marcella - 2021
affect the volume of offshoring between U.S. companies and their affiliates. The suggested argument is stronger for the …
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 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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