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

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in … an outsourcing equilibrium than in a regime of no outsourcing. Consumer welfare rises, and under fairly plausible …

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Services outsourcing and innovation: an empirical investigation

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2009

We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …

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Cross-border mergers and national champions in an integrating economy

Suedekum, Jens - 2006

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent...

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National Champion versus Foreign Takeover

Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may not be prone to "economic patriotism". A...

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Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy

Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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Home Market Effect versus Multinationals

Toulemonde, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...

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Globalization and labor market outcomes: wage bargaining, search frictions, and firm heterogeneity

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2008

We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz' (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for the equilibrium. We find that the selection effect of trade influences labor market outcomes....

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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition: theory and application to the German clothing industry

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...

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Greasing the wheels of international commerce: how services facilitate firms' international sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 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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Trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms: The role of country asymmetries

Pflüger, Michael P.; Russek, Stephan - 2010

This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...

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