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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce : How Services Facilitate Firm's International Sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2021

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...

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Supplier Search and Rematching in Global Sourcing - Theory and Evidence from China

Defever, Fabrice - 2018

in line with the predictions of our theory. In particular, we find that the share of short-term collaborations is higher …

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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 …

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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 … (2004). This model invokes the property rights theory of the firm in order to pin down firm boundaries as the outcome of an … intensity, but favors outsourcing in industries of high sourcing intensity. Moreover, we find that productivity boosts …

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Forging a Global Environmental Agreement Through Trade Sanctions on Free Riders?

Eichner, Thomas - 2015

This paper studies the formation of self-enforcing global environmental agreements in a world economy with …

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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 …

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The Domestic Segment of Global Supply Chains in China Under State Capitalism

Tang, Heiwai - 2014

This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard IO-table based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. Using Chinese firm census data for both manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained optimization techniques, we...

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Green Havens and Pollution Havens

Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 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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Global Sourcing Decisions and Firm Productivity : Evidence from Spain

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2010

distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm's choice is …

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Horizontal versus Vertical Interdependence in Multinational Activity

Badinger, Harald - 2008

Recent research in international economics highlights the role of interdependencies of investment decisions and sales of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct investment, showing that interdependence declines in...

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