Authors:

  • Pol Antras

Excerpt

Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis. Laura Alfaro, Pol Antras, April 2015, Paper. "In recent decades, technological progress and falling trade barriers have allowed firms to slice up their value chains, retaining within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key question facing firms worldwide is figuring out which segments of the value chain are more profitably off-shored, outsourced, or both. Building on Antras and Chor (2013), we describe a property-rights model in which the organization of a firm's manufacturing process is shaped by characteristics of the different stages of production and their position in the value chain..." Link