Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1006:
Growing Trade in Intermediate Goods: Outsourcing, Global Sourcing or Increasing Importance of MNE Networks?
Jörn Kleinert
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: Globalization, Intermediate Goods Trade, Outsourcing, Global Sourcing, Multinational Enterprise; (follow links to similar papers)
43 pages, October 2000
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