Offshoring and product innovation

Economic Theory

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 517-532

  Naghavi, Alireza ^a   Ottaviano, Gianmarco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Growth; Incomplete contracts; Innovation; Offshoring; Spillovers; Trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149328865     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-007-0322-8     Document Type: Article

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