It has been alleged that multinational firms fail to adapt their methods of production to take advantage of the …-intensive methods of production in LDC's than in developed countries and do multinational firms' affiliates in LDC's use more capital … cost, using the most capital-intensive methods of production at home and the least capital-intensive methods in low …

Our paper integrates results from trade-in-task theory into mainstream trade theory by developing trade … wages and production. Extensions of the integrating framework easily accommodate monopolistic competition and two …

We propose a theory of task trade between countries that have similar relative factor endowments but may differ in size …

necessary and sufficient conditions for the effects on wages, prices, production and trade. We show that offshoring requires …

-stage production, and country-specific trade costs. We derive patterns of production specialization and trade for a matrix of countries … that differ in relative endowments (columns) and trade costs (rows). We demonstrate how the ability to fragment production … and/or a proportional change in all countries' trade costs alters these patterns. Production specialization and the volume …