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Offshoring and volatility of demand
Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm; Yalçin, Erdal - 2016
In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that … offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume … firm's employment decision in its domestic and offshore production. In this environment, offshoring is driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497799
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Offshoring and Volatility of Demand
Benz, Sebastian - 2016
In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that … offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume … firm's employment decision in its domestic and offshore production. In this environment, offshoring is driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986173
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The Distributional Effects of International Fragmentation
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2002
Economic globalization causes an increasing international fragmentation (disintegration) of value-added-chains, whereby firms outsource components of production to foreign markets. There is a high level of concern about unwelcome distributional effects. This paper provides a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294506
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Factor Price Frontiers with International Fragmentation of Multistage Production
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2003
. The paper identifies conditions under which outsourcing to a low-wage country is a friend or an enemy to domestic labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294622
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Factor price frontiers with international fragmentation of multistage production
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2003
. The paper identifies conditions under which outsourcing to a low-wage country is a "friend" or an "enemy" to domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009749606
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The distributional effects of international fragmentation
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2002
Economic globalization causes an increasing international fragmentation (disintegration) of value-added-chains, whereby firms outsource components of production to foreign markets. There is a high level of concern about unwelcome distributional effects. This paper provides a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009750232
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The Distributional Effects of International Fragmentation
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2002
Economic globalization causes an increasing international fragmentation (disintegration) of value-added-chains, whereby firms outsource components of production to foreign markets. There is a high level of concern about unwelcome distributional effects. This paper provides a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014117260
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Offshoring under uncertainty
Kohler, Wilhelm; Kukharskyy, Bohdan - In: European economic review : EER 118 (2019), pp. 158-180
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263034
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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade : presented at Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Dissecting Globalization, July 2004
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004
World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time (intensive margin). But trade may also increase if a trading bilateral relationship is newly established between countries that have not traded with each other in the past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450770
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Does WTO Membership Make a Difference at the Extensive Margin of World Trade?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2007
In his seminal paper, Rose (2004) concluded from a gravity-type study of bilateral trade that the GATT/WTO does not play a strong role in encouraging trade. Rose looks at countries where the amount of trade was positive to start with (intensive margin). In this paper, we present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777730