Fernandes, Ana P.; Tang, Heiwai - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 396-414
This paper examines the determinants of vertical integration versus outsourcing in export processing, by exploiting the coexistence of two export processing regimes in China, which designate by law who owns and controls the imported components. Based on a variant of the Antràs-Helpman (2004)...