Input Sourcing and Multinational Production
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Input Sourcing and Multinational Production Online Appendix
I. Symmetric Countries, Frictionless World The symmetric version of the problem (τo = τv = 1 and mi = wi = w for i = h, f) satisfies all the conditions describing a symmetric first-price sealed-bid auction: each supplier observes his own cost (his “valuation”), but not the ones of his competitors, and costs are independently distributed according to a common density ψ(·) (independent private va...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1945-7707,1945-7715
DOI: 10.1257/mac.5.2.118