The Factory-Free Economy Outsourcing, Servitization, and the Future of Industry

Lionel Fontagne, Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics, Universite Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne,Ann Harrison, The William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management and Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Lionel Fontagne is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics, Universite Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, and the Director of the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (UMR 8174 CNRS, Paris). He has been the Director of the Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII, Paris) from 2000 to 2006. He is also a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Economique (Council of Economic Analysis to the French Prime Minister), a scientific advisor to CEPII, and a CESifo Research Fellow. He has published extensively in international journals on international trade and integration issues.


Ann Harrison is William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management and Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Wharton, she taught at various other universities, including Columbia Business School, the University of California, Berkeley, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the University of Paris. Before joining the Wharton School, Professor Harrison spent a number of years in Washington D.C. at the World Bank. She served as the Director of Development Policy and as the head of the research team at the World Bank on international trade and investment. Professor Harrison received her PhD in Economics from Princeton University and her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Introduction, Lionel Fontagne and Ann Harrison
1. Factory-Free Europe? A Two Unbundlings Perspective on Europe's 20th Century Manufacturing Miracle and 21st Century Manufacturing Malaise, Richard Baldwin
2. Hollowing Out of the Japanese Economy: A Long-Term Perspective, Michael J. Ryan and Farid Toubal
3. Structural Change in the OECD: Some Facts, Jean Imbs
4. The Servitization of French Manufacturing Firms, Matthieu Crozet and Emmanuel Milet
5. Factoryless Goods Producers in the US, Andrew B. Bernard and Teresa C. Fort
6. Fragmentation: Survey-Based Evidence for France, Lionel Fontagne and Aurelien D'Isanto
7. The Skill Bias of the US Trade Deficit, Rosario Crino and Paolo Epifani
8. Why Are American Workers Getting Poorer? China, Trade, and Offshoring, Avraham Ebenstein, Ann Harrison, and Margaret McMillan
9. Offshoring, Wages, and Employment: Evidence from Data Matching Imports, Firms, and Workers, Francis Kramarz
10. Globalization and Structural Change: Upheaval in the Nineties or in the Noughties?, Matteo Fiorini, Marion Jansen, and Weisi Xie
11. Are Clusters More Resilient in Crises? Evidence from French Exporters in 2008-2009, Philippe Martin, Thierry Mayer, and Florian Mayneris