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The determinants of intrafirm trade: evidence from French firms
Corcos, Gregory; Irac, Delphine M.; Mion, Giordano; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
How well does the theory of the firm explain the choice between intrafirm and arms' length trade? This paper uses firm-level import data from France to look into this question. We find support for three key predictions of property-rights theories of the multinational firm. Intrafirm imports are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125894
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Offshoring: general equilibrium effects on wages, production and trade
Baldwin, Richard E.; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
A simple model of offshoring is used to integrate the complex gallery of results that exist in the theoretical … offshoring/fragmentation literature. The paper depicts offshoring as ‘shadow migration’ and shows that this allows … conditions are provided). We show that offshoring requires modification of the four HO theorems, so econometricians who ignore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744894
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International financial integration and entrepreneurship
Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746519
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Outsourcing and offshoring engineering projects: understanding the value, sourcing models, and coordination practices
Willcocks, Leslie P.; Oshri, Ilan; Kotlarsky, Julia; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
In this paper, we review recent developments in the field of outsourcing and offshoring and the implications for … engineering management. We examine three aspects involved in outsourcing and offshoring, namely, sourcing models, coordination …, and value extracted from outsourcing projects. We conclude that additional research is needed on recent trends in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745387
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Trade liberalization, outsourcing, and firm productivity
Ossa, Ralph - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
outsourcing as firms focus on their core competencies in response to tougher competition. Since firms are the better at performing … tasks the closer they are to their core competencies, this outsourcing increases firm productivity. Moreover, I also … investigate the links between various technological parameters and outsourcing. In particular, I analyze how technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745324
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Off-shoring of business services and de-industrialization: threat or opportunity - and for whom?
Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper takes a new look at the issue of overseas sourcing of services. In framework in which comparative advantage is endogenous to agglomeration economies and factor mobility, the fragmentation of production made possible by the new communication technologies and low transportation costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746721
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From selling goods to selling services: firm responses to trade liberalization
Breinlich, Holger; Soderbery, Anson; Wright, Greg C. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
In the face of trade liberalization domestic firms are often forced out of the market, whereas others adapt and survive. In this paper we focus on a new channel of adaptation, namely the shift toward increased provision of services in lieu of goods production. We exploit variation in EU trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126040
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Selection effects with heterogeneous firms
Mrázová, Monika; Neary, J. Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
We provide a general characterization of which firms will select alternative ways of serving a market. If and only if firms' maximum profits are supermodular in production and marketaccess costs, more efficient firms will select into the activity with lower market-access costs. Our result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071491
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Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy
Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126527
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The determinants of vertical integration in export processing: theory and evidence from China
Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
outsourcing in export processing trade. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory export processing regimes in China, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071204