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15 September 2008 at 9:38 am Peter G. Klein Leave a comment

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New NBER paper from Pol Antràs and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, “Organizations and Trade” (ungated here). Surveys “an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade,” arguing that “a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy.” Indeed, “certain predictions of standard models . . . are affected or even overturned when organizational decisions are brought into the analysis.”

A valuable survey, but the focus is quite narrow; an older and broader literature seeking to apply transaction cost economics to issues in international business, going back to Teece (1977), should also be consulted. (Joanne Oxley’s research page is a good place to start.)

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