Misfits in the Car Industry: Offshore Assembly Decisions at the Variety Level

Keith Head, Thierry Mayer

NBER Working Paper No. 25614
Issued in February 2019

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An earlier version of this paper was prepared within the “Value Added in Motion (VAM)” project funded by the Enel Foundation. We thank an anonymous referee, participants at the 2018 TRIO Conference and seminars at LSE, Milan, National Bank of Belgium, Banque de France, and CEPII for their comments and wish to specifically acknowledge helpful suggestions from Robert Owen, Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Kerem Cosar, Peter Morrow, Peter Neary, and Gianmarco Ottaviano. This paper was written partly while Keith Head was a visitor at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE. This research has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the Grant Agreement No. 313522. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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