We exploit the census of Romanian firms in order to provide a microfounded analysis of the sources of regional disparities in the country during the transition period, 1996–2001. To this extent, we adapt to the regional case a decomposition of firm-level output/value added dynamics based on...

The emergence of global supply chains, that is the organization of production processes in factories that are part of a network of suppliers located in different countries and specialized in specific production phases, brings about a number of major changes in the way the global economy works...