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Massachusetts Institute of /essays-in-english-with-quotations.html. This thesis analyzes two issues in dissertation international trade me trade: The first three dissertation international trade me introduce the firm as a novel unit of analysis in the political economy of trade policy.
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Chapter 2 analyzes the strategic interaction among firms in a given dissertation international trade me and shows how lobbies are formed when protection from foreign competition represents a public good. This chapter offers different criteria that lobby formation might obey and analyzes the impact of the characteristics of the distribution of firm size on the level of protection of industrial sectors.
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The fourth chapter offers a novel perspective on the decision of firms to outsource part of their production dissertation international trade and looks at the impact of individual firms' decisions on incentive of other dissertation international trade to outsource. Outsourcing firms face a potential loss of product differentiation, but achieve economies of scale at the level of the intermediate good producer. Interaction among firms in a sector can lead to waves of outsourcing.
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