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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...
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-South theoretical framework, I show that higher Northern tariffs reduce the incentives for outsourcing and offshoring, while higher … Southern tariffs have the opposite effects. I also show that increased offshoring and outsourcing imply an increase in the …
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This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technology-related-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …
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We show that, even with flexible domestic wages, international outsourcing may worsen the welfare of the home country … and reduce the profits of all firms. If wages are rigid, outsourcing is welfare-improving if and only if the sum of the … subsidy may improve welfare. We also extend the model to a two-period framework. Delaying outsourcing can be gainful because …
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on enterprise offshoring behaviour, with offshoring to regions outside of the advanced European Union's economies being …
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-South theoretical framework, I show that higher Northern tariffs reduce the incentives for outsourcing and offshoring, while higher … Southern tariffs have the opposite effects. I also show that increased offshoring and outsourcing imply an increase in the …. -- Intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; outsourcing tariffs …
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between intra-firm trade and outsourcing given heterogeneity at the product- (complexity), firm- (productivity) and country …
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between intra-firm trade and outsourcing given heterogeneity at the product- (complexity), firm- (productivity) and country …
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between intra-firm trade and outsourcing given heterogeneity at the product- (complexity), firm- (productivity) and country …
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