The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms

Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau. All results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. We are grateful to Treb Allen, Isaiah Andrews, Andy Bernard, Emily Blanchard, Ariel Burstein, Arnaud Costinot, Pablo Fajgelbaum, Paul Grieco, Gene Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, Sam Kortum, Marc Melitz, Eduardo Morales, and Michael Peters for useful conversations, to Andrés Rodríguez-Clare for his comments while discussing the paper at the NBER, to the editor (Penny Goldberg) and two anonymous referees for their constructive comments, and to Xiang Ding, BooKang Seol and Linh Vu for excellent research assistance. We have also benefited from very useful feedback from seminar audiences at Aarhus, AEA Meetings in Boston, Barcelona GSE, Bank of Spain, Boston College, Boston University, Brown, Cambridge University, Chicago Booth, Dartmouth, ECARES, the Econometric Society Meeting in Minneapolis, ERWIT in Oslo, Harvard, IMF, John Hopkins SAIS, LSE, Michigan, MIT, UQ a Montreal, National Bank of Belgium, NBER Summer Institute, Northwestern, Princeton, Sciences Po in Paris, SED in Toronto, Syracuse, Tsinghua, UBC, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC San Diego, Urbana-Champaign, Virginia, and Yale. We thank Jim Davis at the Boston RDC for invaluable support with the disclosure process. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• December 17, 2014