Pol Antràs 《Global Production: Firms, Contracts and Trade Structure》 [September, 2014]

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作者简介：
Pol Antràs is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He received his B.A. and MSc. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where he served as Director of the International Trade and Organization (ITO) Working Group. He is currently a co-editor of the Journal of International Economics. In 2009, Antràs received the Fundación Banco Herrero Prize, which is awarded annually to a Spanish social scientist under age 40
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本书稿简介：本书脱胎于Antràs在巴塞罗那所作的CREI Lectures in Macroeconomics讲座（2012年6月）内容。

摘自【前言】的一段话：
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The book is largely aimed at graduate students and researchers interested in learning about recent developments in the field of International Trade. I have attempted, however, to make the style of the book a bit less terse than is standard in professional journals and graduate-level textbooks. This may alienate some technically-oriented readers, but will hopefully encourage some advanced undergraduate students and trade practitioners to venture into the material in this book.
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下面是本书的结构：
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Individual Chapters (preliminary versions of available chapters):

• Preface
  
• I Introduction
  
• - Chapter 1. Made in The World
  
• - Chapter 2. Workhorse Models
• II Location
  
• - Chapter 3. Contracts and Export Behavior
  
• - Chapter 4. Contracts and Global Sourcing
  
• - Chapter 5. Contracts and Sourcing: Evidence
  
• III Internalization
  
• - Chapter 6. The Transaction-Cost Approach
  
• - Chapter 7. The Property-Rights Approach
  
• - Chapter 8. Internalization: Empirical Evidence
  
• IV Appendices
  
• - Theoretical Appendix
• - Data Appendix
• Bibliography
  

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本书暂未正式出版，本附件的版本是Antràs最新的手稿。
（前一版地址：https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-3183263-1-1.html ）

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追加，2012年CREI讲座的幻灯片：
Lecture 1

begins by empirically motivating a global approach to studying production processes and will emphasize the importance of imperfect contract enforcement for these decisions. Antràs will then review the workhorse model of international trade (Melitz, 2003) and discuss alternative ways to embed imperfect contract enforcement and global production into the model.

Lecture 2

develops a benchmark micro-founded model of global production, based on Antràs (2003) and Antràs and Helpman (2004), and will derive some key predictions for the determinants of the global sourcing decisions of firms. The benchmark model is simple in many respects, but it will be shown to be flexible enough to easily accommodate the inclusion of more realistic features in various extensions. The implications of the model for aggregate variables and for policy are discussed.

Lecture 3

describes the challenges involved in empirically testing the predictions of the benchmark model and its extensions. Both data constraints as well as conceptual difficulties will be discussed. Lecture 3 will then summarize the progress made by the literature to date and will offer some suggestions for future research.