Egger, Hartmut (contributor); Egger, Peter (contributor) - 2004
This paper provides an analysis of outsourcing and trade in a spatial model à la Hotelling. In this setting, we discuss … the trade-off between transport-cost-related disadvantages and outsourcing-induced production cost advantages of a large … economy. The model gives a rich picture of possible trade and welfare effects of a movement towards free trade and points to …