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Offshoring in a Ricardian WorldAmerican Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- © The editors of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2009
- ISSN
- 0347-0520
- eISSN
- 1467-9442
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2009.01587.x
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
We develop an endogenous growth model with R&D spillovers 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 division. While there is always a positive correlation between upstream bargaining weight and offshoring activities, there is an inverted U‐shaped relationship between these and growth. Whether offshoring with incomplete contracts also increases consumption depends on firm heterogeneity. As for welfare, whereas with complete contracts an R&D subsidy is enough to solve the inefficiency due to R&D spillovers, with incomplete contracts a production subsidy is also needed.
Journal
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics – Wiley
Published: Dec 1, 2009