The impacts of offshore and onshore outsourcing on China's upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from its manufacturing and service sectors

Q Chen, Y Shen - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the impacts of offshore and onshore outsourcing on China's
upgrading in global value chains (GVCs). First, based on Antràs and Chor (2018) and Wang …

How many firms should be leaders? Beneficial concentration revisited

H Ino, T Matsumura - International Economic Review, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates the relationship between the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI) and
welfare in multiple‐leader Stackelberg models. We formulate two long‐run models of free …

Outsourcing, importing and innovation: Evidence from firm‐level data for emerging economies

U Fritsch, H Görg - Review of International Economics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates two sourcing strategies of firms, outsourcing and importing, and links
these to innovation activities. The authors examine this empirically using firm‐level data for …

What role should public enterprises play in free-entry markets?

H Ino, T Matsumura - Journal of Economics, 2010 - Springer
We investigate a desirable role of public enterprise in mixed oligopoly in free-entry markets.
We compare the following three cases:(a) a public firm produces before private firms (public …

Optimal privatisation and trade policies with endogenous market structure

S Cato, T Matsumura - Economic Record, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the short‐run and long‐run relationships of trade and privatisation
policies. In both the short run and the long run, the optimal degree of privatisation is …

Long-run effects of tax policies in a mixed market

S Cato, T Matsumura - FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 2013 - JSTOR
The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic treatment of tax policies in mixed
markets with endogenous entry. We consider three types of tax-subsidy policies: a simple …

Determinants of international R&D outsourcing: the role of trade

M García‐Vega, E Huergo - Review of Development …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the determinants of international R&D outsourcing, in particular the
role of trade. We sketch a monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms where …

Managerial ability and R&D investment: do CEOs' and firms' characteristics matter?

CC Lee, CW Wang, ZT Xu - Applied Economics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Previous studies document that investing in research and development is a key factor to
keep firm survive in the long-run. This study instead focuses on the relationship between …

Multi-sourcing as an entry deterrence strategy

A Mukherjee, Y Tsai - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper studies the rationale for multiple sourcing. In a simple model of outsourcing that
embodies technology transfer and the threat of competition from the supplier (s) due to …

Consideration of selflessness and self‐interest in outsourcing decisions

A Zutshi, A Creed, AS Sohal, G Wood - European Business Review, 2012 - emerald.com
Purpose–The paper aims to discuss the need to balance selflessness and self‐interest
issues in outsourcing decisions. This discussion is timely given the tensions that currently …