elsewhere) can be used by multinational firms which have different productivity to serve the market abroad when product chains … abroad by either horizontal or vertical FDI. Upon opening a market to trade, firms with the lowest productivity will exit …, those with intermediate productivity will export, and those with higher productivity will choose fragmentation. Among the …

this model we identify a formal relationship between international trade, productivity, and wages. We then examine the … trivariate relationship between trade, growth in total factor productivity (TFP), and the skill premium in a vector …

products with intermediate productivity. Shocks to trade costs and technology affect the endogenous decision to export or … produce abroad at the product-level and, in turn, the relative productivity between parents and affiliates …

products with intermediate productivity. Shocks to trade costs and technology affect the endogenous decision to export or … produce abroad at the product-level and, in turn, the relative productivity between parents and affiliates. …

products with intermediate productivity. Shocks to trade costs and technology affect the endogenous decision to export or … produce abroad at the product-level and, in turn, the relative productivity between parents and affiliates. …

value chain-related products and compares the productivity premium of international traders for these different categories … results confirm that global value chain-related trade is associated with a higher productivity premium compared with …

This paper explores the impact of vertical specialization on world trade within the framework of the O-ring theory of …

This paper explores the impact of vertical specialization on world trade within the framework of the O-ring theory of …