Cross-border sourcing and outward processing in EU manufacturing

Cross-border sourcing and outward processing in EU manufacturing

With the help of a standard 2 × 2 trade model, we develop several hypotheses on the effects of cross-border sourcing on skill intensity in production. The focus is on cross-border sourcing of low-skill-intensive components of exports and import-competing products. We test the aforementioned hypotheses with panel data for manufacturing in the European Union (EU). We find that outward processing ...

The drivers and impediments for cross-border e-commerce in the EU

Border Regions and the Politics of EU- Russian Relations The Role of the EU in Tempering and Producing Border Conflicts

Enhancing Cross-border EU E-commerce through Machine Translation: Needed Language Resources, Challenges and Opportunities

This paper discusses the role that statistical machine translation (SMT) can play in the development of cross-border EU e-commerce, by highlighting extant obstacles and identifying relevant technologies to overcome them. In this sense, it firstly proposes a typology of e-commerce static and dynamic textual genres and it identifies those that may be more successfully targeted by SMT. The specifi...

Single and Multiple Sourcing in the Auto-Manufacturing Industry

This article outlines a hybrid method, incorporating multiple techniques into an evaluation process, in order to select competitive suppliers in a supply chain. It enables a purchaser to do single sourcing and multiple sourcing by calculating a combined supplier score, which accounts for both qualitative and quantitative factors that have impact on supply chain performance. Keywords—Analytic hi...