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Global Production: Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure
Pol Antras
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Description for Global Production: Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure
Hardback. Series: Crei Lectures in Macroeconomics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 32 line illus. 27 tables. BIC Classification: KCL; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies. Few international trade transactions today are based on the exchange of finished goods; rather, the majority of transactions are dominated by sales of individual components and intermediary services. Many firms organize global production around offshoring parts, components, and services to producers in distant countries, and contracts are drawn up specific to the parties and distinct legal systems involved. Pol Antras examines the contractual frictions that arise in the international system of production and how these frictions ... Read more
Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies. Few international trade transactions today are based on the exchange of finished goods; rather, the majority of transactions are dominated by sales of individual components and intermediary services. Many firms organize global production around offshoring parts, components, and services to producers in distant countries, and contracts are drawn up specific to the parties and distinct legal systems involved. Pol Antras examines the contractual frictions that arise in the international system of production and how these frictions ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
CREI Lectures in Macroeconomics
Condition
New
Weight
629g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691168272
SKU
V9780691168272
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About Pol Antras
Pol Antras is the Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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This book is an excellent addition for graduate courses and a great reference for researchers.
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