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The Factory-Free Economy : Outsourcing, Servitization and the Future of Industry

Fontagné, Lionel - 2017

The shift towards a “factory-free” economy has drawn the attention of policy makers in North America and Europe. Some politicians have articulated alarming views, initiating mercantilist or ‘beggar-thy-neighbour' cost-competitiveness policies. Yet companies that concentrate research and...

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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

Horton, John J. - 2017

-connected exchanges on digital platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for …

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A Portrait of U.S. Factoryless Goods Producers

Kamal, Fariha - 2018

This paper evaluates the U.S. Census Bureau's most recent data collection efforts to classify business entities that engage in an extreme form of production fragmentation called “factoryless” goods production. “Factoryless” goods-producing entities outsource physical transformation...

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Outsourcing Price Decisions : Evidence from U.S. 9802 Imports

Swenson, Deborah - 2021

appear to condition outsourcing decisions. The data for 1991-2000 show that U.S. overseas assembly imports were characterized … educated countries passed-through a much larger portion of their cost changes. In addition, the price of outsourcing imports … differential price responses suggest that information issues play an important role in the mediation of outsourcing relationships …

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Purchased Services, Outsourcing, Computers, and Productivity in Manufacturing

Siegel, Donald S.; Griliches, Zvi - 2021

Increases in purchased services, foreign outsourcing, and investments in computers are alleged to have resulted in an … outsourcing. Our preliminary evidence, based on data that are not comprehensive, suggests that an industry's propensity to …

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Acquiring Knowledge within and Across Firm Boundaries : Evidence from Clinical Development

Azoulay, Pierre - 2021

Considerable evidence suggests that information is acquired more easily within than across firm boundaries. I explore why this is observed in the setting of clinical development. Since the mid-1980s, pharmaceutical firms have partly contracted out the operational aspects of clinical trials to...

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Global Sourcing

Antràs, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021

We present a North South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral characteristics, firms decide whether to integrate into the...

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Foreign Investment, Outsourcing and Relative Wages

Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

1980's. We argue that a contributing factor to this decline was rising imports reflecting the outsourcing of production …

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The Value of Information in International Trade : Gains to Outsourcing Through Hong Kong

Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H.; Lin, Songhua - 2021

In this paper, we estimate the benefits to countries that purchase goods from China of having access to intermediary services provided by Hong Kong. Traders in Hong Kong supply information on markets and producers in China, which provides welfare gains to foreign firms using these services....

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Outsourcing and Technological Change

Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2021

In this paper we argue that an important source of the recent increase in outsourcing is the computer and information … technological change increases outsourcing because it allows firms to use services based on leading edge technologies without … outsourcing costs of IT-based services generating a positive correlation between the IT level of the user and its outsourcing …

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