integration choices of firms around the world …

multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics …

motley assortment of regional trade agreements is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade … and uses it to structure a narrative of world trade liberalisation since 1947. The logic is then used to project the world … mechanism ndash; spaghetti bowls as building blocs ndash; whereby offshoring creates a force that encourages the …

perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing … features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global …

offshoring in the short run and in the long run (when technology levels are endogenous). The short-run analysis shows that when … research efforts in response to increased offshoring. In particular, the rich country always gains from increased fragmentation …