. While a number of studies examine the endogenousresponse of firm productivity to trade liberalization, modelling internal …

Empirical evidence suggests that trade liberalization increases firm productivity. This paper offers a novel … tasks the closer they are to their core competencies, this outsourcing increases firm productivity. Moreover, I also …

intermediaries, such as the facilitating team production or increasing worker productivity, explain, at most, only a small share of …

elasticity and multiple asymmetric regions, in which trade integration induces wage and productivity changes. Using Canada …-US interregional trade data, we structurally estimate a theory-based gravity equation system featuring endogenous wages and … productivity. Given the estimated parameter values, we first decompose border effects into a pure border effect, relative and …

A simple model of offshoring is used to integrate the complex gallery of results that exist in the theoretical … offshoring/fragmentation literature. The paper depicts offshoring as ‘shadow migration’ and shows that this allows … conditions are provided). We show that offshoring requires modification of the four HO theorems, so econometricians who ignore …