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Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - In: Economics letters 124 (2014) 3, pp. 411-415

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Global sourcing : towards an empirical test of the hold-up model ; conference paper

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2013

We use Spanish firm-level data to test the hold-up model of global sourcing proposed by Antr s & Helpman (2004). We propose a novel representation of the model which guides us in bringing the theory to the data. We estimate a discrete choice model of firms' sourcing behavior, separately for the...

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International outsourcing and factor prices with multistage production

Kohler, Wilhelm - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 114 (2004) 494, pp. C166-185

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Can deunionization lead to international outsourcing?

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - 2008

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Global sourcing and firm selection

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2013

Which firms find it optimal to integrate their input suppliers into the firm boundaries of control (vertical integration)? Which firms choose to expand their sourcing activities across the national border (offshoring)? This letter provides novel evidence on these questions based on a Spanish...

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Global sourcing of heterogeneous firms : theory and evidence

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2015

input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as well as the location of intermediate input production (offshore vs … intensity, but favors outsourcing in industries of high sourcing intensity. Moreover, we find that productivity boosts …

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The bazaar effect, unbundling of comparative advantage, and migration

Kohler, Wilhelm (contributor) - 2007

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The bazaar effect, unbundling of comparative advantage, and migration

Kohler, Wilhelm - In: Dynamik internationaler Märkte : …, (pp. 147-194). 2007

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Can deunionization lead to international outsourcing?

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - 2005

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Can deunionization lead to international outsourcing? : Presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 2005

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - 2005

. Such outsourcing leads to increased wages for the remaining in-house production. We find that stronger unions, which imply … higher domestic wages, reduce incentives for international outsourcing. Though somewhat surprising, this result provides a … theoretical reconciliation of the empirically observed trends of deunionization and increased international outsourcing in many …

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