Changes in information and communication technologieshave increased the offshorability of tasks.As routine tasks (Pol Antràs, Luis Garicano and EstebanRossi-Hansberg, 2006) and lower offshoring-costtasks (Gene Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg,2008) move abroad, production processes become...

An organization will often use a specialized technical language that is un-derstood by its members but not by others. We develop a theory of optimalorganizational languages and identify a key trade-o¤ between facilitatinginternal communication and encouraging communication with other...