Adaptation and the Boundary of Multinational Firms

By Arnaud Costinot, Lindsay Oldenski, James E. Rauch. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011

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Relationship-Specificity, Contract Enforceability, and Income Smoothing (2013, background): “Furthermore, many other authoritative studies provide support for Nunn’s (2007) measure in various contexts, further validating its legitimacy (e.g., Ciccone and Papaioannou 2009; Cristea 2011; Casaburi and Minerva 2011; Chor 2010; Costinot et al. 2011; Ma et al. 2010; Acemoglu et al. 2009).”
Why are different services outsourced to different countries? (2011, methodology): “We follow the methodology proposed by Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003) and Costinot et al. (2010) to quantify the degree of routineness, complexity and interactiveness for each type of service in each year.”
Intrafirm trade and vertical fragmentation in U.S. multinational corporations (2015, unknown): “Carr et al. (2001), Antras (2003), Yeaple (2006), Nunn and Treﬂer (2008), Bernard et al. (2009), and Costinot et al. (2011) analyze intra-MNC trade using data aggregated to the country-industry level.”
Technology and Production Fragmentation: Domestic versus Foreign Sourcing (2016, unknown): “…the industry share of differentiated inputs from Nunn (2007), skill and capital intensity from the NBER productivity database, and routineness from Costinot et al. (2011).12 Panel A shows that the industry share of plants purchasing CMS is positively correlated with CAD intensity, the share of…”