home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs …, using a recent theory on trade in tasks. A production function is estimated for the Netherlands for the period 1972-2001. It … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …

relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export …

In this paper we confirm the existence of improvements of firm productivity when domestic upstream and downstream firms …, help us confirm that these inter-industry productivity improvements can also be generated form a quasi-trade liberalization … event. Upstream linkages are the dominant source of these productivity benefits and are reaped mainly from medium-low tech …