Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Contractual Frictions and Global Sourcing -- 2. The Boundaries of the Multinational Firm: An Empirical Analysis -- 3. Contract Enforcement, Comparative Advantage, and Long-Run Growth -- 4. The Dynamics of Firm-Level Adjustment to Trade...

We model an economy in which domestic banks and firms face incentive constraints, as in Holmstrom and Tirole (1997). Firms borrow from banks and uninformed investors, and can collude with banks to reduce the intensity of monitoring. We study the general equilibrium effects of capital flows...