Plausibly Exogenous - Offshoring (08/09/2021)

LHS Variable
Innovation in home country

RHS Variable
Offshoring of manufacturing

Source of Exogenous Variation
Policy shock that differentially affected the ability of Taiwanese firms to offshore some products to China

- Branstetter et al. (2017), “Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan”