Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation? Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan

The authors thank the editor and anonymous referees for constructive comments and suggestions. The authors also gratefully acknowledge helpful feedback from Emek Basker, Tain-Jy Chen, Erica Fuchs, Brad Jensen, Guangwei Li, Brian Kovak, Richard Freeman, John Van Reenen, Yanbo Wang, and Steve Yeaple, as well as participants at the NBER Innovation Summer Institute. The authors thank Steve Bao and Liujie Wu for excellent research assistance. The authors are grateful to Chih-Hai Yang of National Central University for assistance in obtaining the customs data used in earlier related work. Britta Glennon thanks National Central University of Taiwan for its hospitality and intellectual support. Financial support from the National Science Foundation (1360170), Portuguese National Science Foundation, and the Mack Institute is gratefully acknowledged. All remaining errors are the authors’ own.