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Multi-product offshoring
Eckel, Carsten; Irlacher, Michael - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289209
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Creasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms' international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949012
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Spatial Linkages, Global Shocks, and Local Labor Markets : Theory and Evidence
Adão, Rodrigo - 2019
Abstract How do shocks to economic fundamentals in the world economy affect local labor markets? In a framework with a flexible structure of spatial linkages, we characterize the model-consistent shock exposure of a local market as the exogenous shift in its production revenues and consumption...
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Elasticity optimism
Imbs, Jean; Méjean, Isabelle - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003813483
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Trade and Geography
Redding, Stephen J. - 2020
This paper reviews recent research on geography and trade. One of the key empirical findings over the last decade has been the role of geography in shaping the distributional consequences of trade. One of the major theoretical advances has been the development of quantitative spatial models that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481124
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Latent Exports : Almost Ideal Gravity and Zeros
Anderson, James E. - 2020
Almost Ideal gravity associates zero trade flows with variable and fixed trade cost variation in a flexible demand system. Latent trade shares between non-partners are inferred from the Tobit estimator applied to trade among 75 countries and 25 sectors in 2006. Latent Trade Bias (LTB) is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482496
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Poultry in Motion : A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
Antràs, Pol - 2011
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction level data from a U.S. based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461566
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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
Dippel, Christian - 2017
Instrumental variables (IV) are a common means to identify treatment effects. But standard IV methods do not allow us to unpack the complex treatment effects that arise when a treatment and its outcome together cause a second outcome of interest. For example, IV methods have been used to show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455472
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Offshoring and Unemployment
Mitra, Devashish - 2007
In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if the search cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465504
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Offshoring and Labor Markets
Hummels, David - 2016
We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing … firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …
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