| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP8163 |
| DP8163 Spiders and Snakes: Offshoring and Agglomeration in the Global Economy | |
| Anthony Venables; Richard Baldwin | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-12-01 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Global production sharing is determined by international cost differences and frictions related to the costs of unbundling stages spatially. The interaction between these forces depends on engineering details of the production process with two extremes being ?snakes? and ?spiders?. Snakes are processes whose sequencing is dictated by engineering; spiders involve the assembly of parts in no particular order. This paper studies spatial unbundling as frictions fall, showing that outcomes are very different for snakes and spiders, even if they share some features. Both snakes and spiders have in common a property that lower frictions produce discontinuous location changes and ?overshooting?. Parts may move against their comparative costs because of proximity benefits, and further reductions in frictions lead these parts to be ?reshored?. Predictions for trade volumes and the number of fragmented stages are quite different in the two cases. For spiders, a part crosses borders at most twice; the value of trade increases monotonically as frictions fall, except when the assembler relocates and the direction of parts trade is reversed. For snakes the volume of trade and number of endogenously determined stages is bounded only by the fragmentation of the underlying engineering process, and lower frictions monotonically increase trade volumes. |
| 主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | Agglomeration Fragmentation Offshoring Parts and components Assembly Vertical linkages |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8163 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537000 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Anthony Venables,Richard Baldwin. DP8163 Spiders and Snakes: Offshoring and Agglomeration in the Global Economy. 2010. |
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