Recent contributions on off shoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate … technologically determined sequence of production steps. In our model, cost savings from off shoring fluctuate along the production …

Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this … relates to fragments of production, I compare a trading equilibrium where all fragments are located within a country with an …

within education groups, our theory helps to explain (1) rising wage inequality between groups, and (2) rising wage …

This paper studies how firms' offshoring decisions shape a country's domestic production net- works. We develop a model … net effect of offshoring on a firm's domestic production networks depends on the relative strength of the three effects … domestic production networks …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the …

To what extent has trade liberalization contributed to global production fragmentation and the formation of production … value added exports to exports (VAX) ratio, as well as model-based measures for production networks from a multi … accession in 2001. We find that the associated trade cost changes spurred global production fragmentation, explaining about 6 …