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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028794
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078522
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Off-shoring and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries
Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264353
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012534
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898431
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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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International outsourcing and the supply side productivity determinants
Grover, Arti - 2007
A service provider firm in an outsourcing relationship is distinct from a typical firm because it is not a stand alone …, rent, energy consumption cannot appropriately determine a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm's productivity. Academic … perspective of the host country, the sourcing firm, the global outsourcing industry and of course the service provider firm. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264201
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315905
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316535