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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian - 2010

We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...

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

Debaere, Peter Marcel - 2010

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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On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms : Which Sourcing Mode for Which Input?

Südekum, Jens - 2012

organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the "indirect … outsourcing of the "less important" supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer …

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Time is on My Side : Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare

Kukharskyy, Bohdan - 2018

This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...

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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture

Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021

Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are...

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Employment Protection and Firm Relocation : Theory and Evidence

Dewit, Gerda - 2018

We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws over time in the...

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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring : The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity

Mitra, Devashish; Jha, Priyaranjan - 2007

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities …, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in … an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in …

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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI : Recent Advances and Research Gaps

Pflüger, Michael - 2010

relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing … offshoring (integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, we overview existing … empirical work covering the labor market effects of trade and FDI. Finally, we identify and summarize the existing research gaps …

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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research : With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - 2008

outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased …

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Does ICT Investment Spur or Hamper Offshoring? Empirical Evidence from Microdata

Benfratello, Luigi - 2015

on offshoring. Furthermore, when splitting the sample according to the technological level, the effect is negative and …

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