Trade-in-goods and trade-in-tasks: An Integrating Framework

This paper is a complete transformation (including substantial new results) of our working paper circulated in 2006 and 2007 under the title "Offshoring: General equilibrium effects on wages, production and trade." We thank conference and seminar participants at the National University of Singapore, Hitotsubashi University, the Paris School of Economics, Oxford, Geneva, LSE, Tokyo, Warwick, Manchester, CORE/UCL and University of Toronto for comments, especially Pol Antràs, Christopher Bliss, Holger Breinlich, Fabrice Defever, Marco Fugazza, Masa Fujita, Taiji Furusawa, Jota Ishikawa, Sébastien Jean, Ron Jones, Jim Markusen, Marc Melitz, Peter Neary, Volker Nocke, Toshi Okubo, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Henry Overman, Alessandra Tucci, Thierry Verdier, Pierre-Louis Vézina, David Vines, Adrian Woods and Dao-Zhi Zeng. We especially thank Gene Grossman and Estaban Rossi-Hansberg for comments on early drafts in September 2006 and November 2006. Robert-Nicoud is also a visiting scholar at Princeton, whose hospitality is gratefully acknowledged. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.