Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring

Gene M. Grossman, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

NBER Working Paper No. 12721
Issued in December 2006

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The authors are grateful to David Autor, Richard Baldwin, Donald Davis, Jonathan Eaton, James Harrigan, Elhanan Helpman, Frank Levy, Per Krusell, Marc Melitz, Torsten Persson, and Steve Redding for helpful comments and discussions. They acknowledge with thanks the support of the National Science Foundation (SES 0211748, SES 0451712 and SES 0453125). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or any other organization. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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