Commercial arbitration regime and sourcing decision

Se Mi Park

International Review of Law and Economics, 2024, vol. 78, issue C

Abstract: Introducing commercial arbitration into a two-country sourcing model, this paper examines how the quality of commercial arbitration regime affects sourcing decision when production involves a relationship-specific transaction. Arbitration may be invoked when a firm shaves the investment value of a customized intermediate input or does not pay in full for investment. Under the full verifiability of an ex-post investment value by an arbitrator, firm behavior is governed by the quality of arbitration regime, measuring how fully a national arbitration regime supports the enforcement of arbitral awards. I theoretically find that a firm’s likelihood of choosing global sourcing over domestic sourcing increases with the source and destination countries’ qualities of international arbitration regimes and the source country’s quality of general arbitration regime. These impacts are magnified as the production of an intermediate input involves a greater degree of relationship-specific transaction. Results also show that as the production of an intermediate input entails a greater degree of relationship-specific transaction, a firm’s likelihood of choosing global sourcing over domestic sourcing decreases when domestic arbitration offers the better enforcement of arbitral awards compared to international arbitration.

Keywords: Sourcing decision; Global sourcing; Domestic sourcing; Commercial arbitration; Commercial arbitration regime; Relationship-specific transactions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D02 D21 F12 K49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2024.106195

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