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Innovation and Production in the Global Economy (Obsolete)

Home market effects or comparative advantage leads some countries to specialize in innovation and relegate manufacturing operations to other countries via outward multinational production. Counterfactual analysis reveals that the reduction in the cost of multinational production or the integration of China into the world economy may hurt countries that are driven to specialize in production, although these losses tend to be very small.