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Working Papers

• "Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade,'' (joint with Stephen R. Yeaple), January 2013. [PDF] [Online Appendix]

• "Organizing the Global Value Chain,'' (joint with Davin Chor), May 2012. [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Slides]

• "Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices," (joint with C. Fritz Foley), November 2011. [PDF] [Slides]

CREI Macro Lectures 2012

Contracts and the Global Organization of Production

Lecture slides available. Manuscript coming soon.

• Lecture 1: Introduction and Complete-Contracting Benchmark Models [Slides]

• Lecture 2: Contracts, Exporting and Global Sourcing [Slides]

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• "On the Role of Financial Frictions and the Saving Rate during Trade Liberalizations," (joint with Ricardo Caballero), Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 8, No. 2-3, April/May 2010, pp. 442-455. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Regional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies," (joint with C. Fritz Foley), forthcoming in Barro, R. and J-W. Lee (eds.), Costs and Benefits of Regional Economic Integration, Oxford University Press, 2010. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Trade and Capital Flows: A Financial Frictions Perspective," (joint with Ricardo Caballero), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 117, No. 4, August 2009, pp. 701-744. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets", (joint with Mihir Desai and C. Fritz Foley), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 124, No. 3, August 2009, pp. 1171-1219. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Organizations and Trade," (joint with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg), Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 1, January 2009, pp. 43-64. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Contractual Frictions and Global Sourcing," (joint with Elhanan Helpman), in Helpman, E., D. Marin, and T. Verdier, The Organization of Firms in a Global Economy, Harvard University Press, 2008, pp. 9-54. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Organizing Offshoring: Middle Managers and Communication Costs," (joint with Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg), in Helpman, E., D. Marin, and T. Verdier, The Organization of Firms in a Global Economy, Harvard University Press, 2008, pp. 311-339. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Negotiating Free Trade," (joint with Philippe Aghion and Elhanan Helpman), Journal of International Economics, Vol. 73, No. 1, September 2007, pp. 1-30. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Contracts and Technology Adoption," (joint with Daron Acemoglu and Elhanan Helpman), American Economic Review, Vol. 97, No. 3, June 2007, pp. 916-943. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy," (joint with Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 121, No. 1, February 2006, pp. 31-77. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Incomplete Contracts and the Product Cycle," American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 4, September 2005, pp. 1054-1073. [PDF] ­[Long­er WP version] [Slides]

• "Property Rights and the International Organization of Production," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2005, pp. 25-32. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Global Sourcing," (joint with Elhanan Helpman), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 112, No. 3, June 2004, pp. 552-580. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Is the U.S. Aggregate Production Function Cobb-Douglas? New Estimates of the Elasticity of Substitution," Contributions to Macroeconomics, Vol. 4, No. 1, April 2004. [PDF]

• "Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 4, November 2003, pp. 1375-1418. [PDF] ­[Long­er WP version] [Slides]

• "Factor Prices and Productivity Growth During the British Industrial Revolution," (joint with Hans-Joachim Voth), Explorations in Economic History, 40, January 2003, pp. 52-77. [PDF]
  

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