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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring : The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
Mitra, Devashish; Jha, Priyaranjan - 2007
We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities …, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in … an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049472
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Chapter 2. Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade
Antràs, Pol; Yeaple, Stephen R. - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 55-130). 2014
This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025384
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2013
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010213481
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Escaping to the east? : relocation of business activities to and from Hungary, 2003 - 2011
Hunya, Magdolna Sass-Gábor - 2014
While the increased frequency of relocation of productive capacities to lower wage countries from developed economies has given rise to discussions concerning job losses and de-industrialisation, developments in the host countries of relocation have been widely neglected. Hungary, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252180
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Multinational firms' organisational dynamics : competition intensity and the ownership decision under uncertainty
Navarro, Leandro Gastón - 2021
increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332242
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Intellectual property rights, multinational firms and technology transfers
Biancini, Sara; Bombarda, Pamela - 2017
the intermediate from vertically integrated producers, or from independent suppliers. In both cases, offshoring part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761570
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2011
firms that are consistent with stylized facts from the recent empirical literature. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing … ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273125
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010
. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009300131
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International product fragmentation and the insertion of Latin America and the Caribbean in global production networks : Colombian case studies
Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Uribe, Maria José - 2012
Understanding the drivers of international production fragmentation is an important issue for Latin American and Caribbean countries because participation in global production networks can help mitigate instability due to dependence on natural resources and can provide opportunities for further...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303271
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Insertion of Costa Rica in global value chains : a case study
Monge González, Ricardo; Zolezzi, Sandro - 2012
This study sheds light on how Costa Rica’s insertion in global value chains occurs by examining governance patterns, the type of activities involved, and the level of underlying innovation in the selected value chain. The paper describes in detail two case studies of electronic-related...
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