Studi Luca d'Agliano).This paper uses detailed product-level export data for China and proposes an extension of the Antràs … direct investment (FDI) versus foreign outsourcing. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory trade regimes for export …-processing in China, pure-assembly and import-and-assembly. We find that if Chinese plants import materials and assemble them, the …

outsourcing in export processing trade. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory export processing regimes in China, which …Using detailed product-level export data for China and a variant of the Antràs and Helpman (2004) model that includes …

. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …