Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
We develop an endogenous growth model to study the long run consequences of offshoring with firm heterogeneity and incomplete contracts. In so doing, we model offshoring as the geographical fragmentation of a firm’s production chain between a home upstream division and a foreign downstream...