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Frank Pisch.

Frank Pisch

Associate

Expertise: international economics, organisational economics, environmental economics

Telephone:
+49 6151 16 57273
Email:
f.pisch@lse.ac.uk
frank.pisch@tu-darmstadt.de
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University of Darmstadt - Chair of Microeconomics

Biography

Dr Frank Pisch is a Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt and holds the Chair of Microeconomics. He is an Associate at CEP and the SIAW. Previously he was an assistant professor at the University of St. Gallen and received his PhD from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on (international) production networks, covering the areas of international trade, organisational economics and environmental economics.

Current areas of research include:

  • Market power in international production networks: trade liberalisations lead to higher welfare gains due to pro-competitive effects shaped by firm heterogeneity and matching frictions; effects of exchange rate movements on companies embedded in international production networks.
  • Firm organisation in supply chains: just-in-time management leads to regionalisation and vertical integration; make-or-buy decisions for service inputs.
  • Environmental footprint of international production fragmentation

Publications

CEP discussion papers
Managing export complexity: the role of service outsourcing

Exporting involves sunk and fixed costs in the form of service inputs, and whether such services are 'made' in-house or 'bought' from external agencies is a key organizational margin: it is not a core-competence of manuf... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri and Frank Pisch

06 April 2022

Journal article
Organizing Global Supply Chains: Input-Output Linkages and Vertical Integration

We study how the technological importance of inputs—measured by cost shares—is related to the decision to “make” or “buy” that input. Using detailed French international trade data and an instrumental variable approach b... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Frank Pisch and Claudia Steinwender

01 June 2021

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Covid-19 and the future of international supply chains

Frank Pisch analyses 'just-in-time' production networks to assess the prospects for world trade after Covid-19... Read more...

Frank Pisch

15 July 2020

CEP discussion papers
Managing global production: theory and evidence from just-in-time supply chains

Global value chains are highly fragmented across countries and dominated by a few large multinational firms. But the challenges of an increasingly difficult international business environment are raising the question of ... Read more...

Frank Pisch

29 April 2020

CEP discussion papers
Organizing global supply chains: input-output linkages and vertical integration

We study whether and how the technological importance of an input – measured by its cost share – is related to the decision of whether to “make” or “buy” that input. Using detailed French international trade data and an ... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Frank Pisch and Claudia Steinwender

19 November 2018

Journal article
On the comparative advantage of U.S. manufacturing: Evidence from the shale gas revolution

This paper provides novel empirical evidence of the effects of a plausibly exogenous change in relative factor prices on U.S. manufacturing production and trade. The shale gas revolution has led to (very) large and persi... Read more...

Rabah Arezki, Thiemo Fetzer and Frank Pisch

01 July 2017

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Fracking: the boost to US manufacturing

Research by Rabah Arezki, Thiemo Fetzer and Frank Pisch shows that the surge in shale gas production – ‘fracking’ – since the early 2000s has not only made the United States the world’s largest producer of natural gas. I... Read more...

Rabah Arezki, Thiemo Fetzer and Frank Pisch

13 December 2016

CEP discussion papers
On the comparative advantage of US manufacturing: evidence from the shale gas revolution

This paper provides novel empirical evidence of the effects of a plausibly exogenous change in relative factor prices on United States manufacturing production and trade. The shale gas revolution has led to (very) large ... Read more...

Rabah Arezki, Thiemo Fetzer and Frank Pisch

01 November 2016

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