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A New International Division of Labor in Europe: Outsourcing and Offshoring to Eastern Europe

Marin, Dalia - 2005

of intrafirm imports from that region. These factors also favor outsourcing over offshoring. In contrast, low … alternative suppliers in Eastern Europe) favor offshoring over outsourcing. Tax holidays granted by host countries in Eastern …

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A New International Division of Labor in Europe: Offshoring and Outsourcing to Eastern Europe

Marin, Dalia - 2005

the level of intra-firm imports from Eastern Europe. They are also favoring outsourcing over offshoring. Low … alternative suppliers in Eastern Europe) are favoring offshoring over outsourcing. Tax holidays granted by host countries in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427429

Innovation and the International Firm Structure: Theory and Evidence from German Firm-Level Data

Hansen, Thorsten - 2010

This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...

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Innovation and the International Firm Structure: Theory and Evidence from German Firm-Level Data

Hansen, Thorsten - 2010

larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of offshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international …

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The property rights theory of production networks

Balbuzanov, Ivan; Kotowski, Maciej H. - In: Theoretical Economics 19 (2024) 4, pp. 1619-1658

This paper investigates the formation of production and trading networks in economies with general interdependencies and complex property rights. We argue that the right to exclude, a core tenet of property, grants asset owners local monopoly power that is amplified by an economy's endogenous...

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Relational Contracts and the Economic Well-Being of Nations

Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Pflüger, Michael - 2011

Informal long-term relationships and mutual confidence play a crucial role in modern economies in at least two dimensions. First, the performance of firms is strongly affected by their capacity to solve organizational questions effectively and this capacity is apparently strongly related to...

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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2016

estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter’s productivity growth is …

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Sourcing of services and total factor productivity

Dhyne, Emmanuel; Duprez, Cédric - 2022

find that productivity gains from outsourcing of services activities may be substantial. Reducing local trade costs might …This paper studies how outsourcing of services activities affects TFP at the firm level. Using the universe of buyer …-supplier relationships in Belgium, we first document several new empirical facts about how firms engage in the outsourcing of supporting …

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Human capital, the structure of production, and growth

Ciccone, Antonio; Papaioannou, Elias - 2006

Do high levels of human capital foster economic growth by facilitating technology adoption? If so, countries with more human capital should have adopted more rapidly the skilled-labor augmenting technologies becoming available since the 1970’s. High human capital levels should therefore have...

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Price Liberalization and Output Decline in Transition

Polanec, Sašo - 2004

In this paper, we attempt to fill the gap in theoretical explanations of a large output decline that took place in the early years of transition process. The prevalent explanations, commonly found under the title of disorganisation, are succesful in explaining output decline in countries of...

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