Can a country gain international competitiveness by the design of optimal monetary stabilization rules? This paper … exports. The welfare gains from international policy coordination are large relative to the case of self-oriented, strategic …

This paper studies price and quality differences across international intermediate input suppliers. We develop price …

mechanism ndash; spaghetti bowls as building blocs ndash; whereby offshoring creates a force that encourages the …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing … firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …

This paper exploits a unique offshoring survey to show that firms continue domestic production of the same goods they …. Firms’ reactions also motivate a new offshoring measure – produced- good imports – that is readily observed in most firm …

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical … findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the … multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics …