. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … Faktorausstattung zweier Länder basiert. Das zweite Kapitel liefert eine Theorie zu Offshoring unter Imitationsrisiko. Diese Theorie … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but …

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …

We develop a theory linking "misallocation," i.e., dispersion in marginal products of capital (MPK), to macroeconomic … productivity by as much as 6%, suggesting large "productivity costs" of business cycles. …

's (1982) model of learning in a setting where each firm gradually learns about its own productivity, and each occasionally …