Growing Trade in Intermediate Goods: Outsourcing, Global Sourcing or Increasing Importance of MNE Networks?

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Trade in intermediate goods as one possible link between rising trade and foreign direct investment is examined. To explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the increasing importance of MNE networks. These hypotheses are tested by employing a cross-section framework, which uses OECD input-output table data, and an analysis, which relies on German time-series data. Increasing importance of MNE networks is found to be a reason of growing trade in intermediate goods in the cross-section and the time-series framework. The evidence for outsourcing and global sourcing is found to be much weaker.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1006

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Neoclassical Models of Trade ; International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements
• Subject: Globalization ; Intermediate Goods Trade ; Outsourcing ; Global Sourcing ; Multinational Enterprise ; Vorprodukt ; Außenhandel ; Internationale Arbeitsteilung ; Schätzung ; Outsourcing ; Direktinvestition ; Beschaffung ; international ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Firmeninterner Handel ; Input-Output ; OECD-Staaten ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kleinert, Jörn
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW)
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2000

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/17705
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET