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Papers

Working Papers

• “Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements,” (joint with Robert W. Staiger), August 2008. [PDF]
  

• “Organizations and Trade,” (joint with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg), August 2008. [PDF]

• “Foreign Influence and Welfare,” (joint with Gerard Padró i Miquel), June 2008. [PDF]

• "Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets", (joint with Mihir Desai and C. Fritz Foley), June 2008. [PDF]
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• “Trade and Capital Flows: A Financial Frictions Perspective,” (joint with Ricardo Caballero), November 2007. [PDF]

­Publications

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

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

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

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

• "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]

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

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

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

• "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]

• "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]

Lecture Notes

• Advanced Topics in International Trade, Economics 2535 (graduate), "Firms and International Trade." May 2006. [L­ink]
  

• Topics in International Trade, Economics 1540 (undergraduate), "Multinational Firms and the Globalization of Production." May 2006. [Link]

• International Economics I, MIT 14.581 (graduate), Spring 2007. [Link]

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