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ProDoc Trade Short Course
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Offshoring and Outsourcing in International Trade
Two seminars by Professor Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University
Tuesday, 27th and Wednesday, 28th September, 2011
Venue
World Trade Organization
154, Rue de Lausanne, Geneva
Tuesday, 27th from 14:00 to 16:00 in Room F
Wednesday, 28th from 10:15 to 12:15 in Room A
Organised by
The Graduate Institute's Centre for Trade and Economic Integration in collaboration with the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the WTO
Registration Deadline
To register for this event, please submit the Registration Form by noon Friday 23rd September.
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Overview
The course will examine recent empirical and theoretical literature on offshoring and outsourcing:
- The Property Rights Approach;
- The Task Approach;
- Production Chains and Sequential Production Approach;
- Managerial Talent and Hierarchical Organization Approach.
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Biography
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg is a professor of economics in the Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He performs research in macroeconomics, international trade, and urban economics. His research focuses on the internal structure of cities, the distribution of economic activity in space, economic growth and the size distribution of cities, the effect of offshoring on wage inequality, the role on information technology on wages and organization, and firm dynamics and the size distribution of firms. Rossi-Hansberg was a faculty member in the Economics Department at Stanford University. He is a faculty associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and his research receives support from the National Science Foundation. Ph.D. University of Chicago.
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