from a low-wage country. Offshoring an intermediate is only profitable when it has matured sufficiently and the savings in … for parts that are only exported later, consistent with offshoring becoming gradually more difficult. …

–South theoretical framework, I show that higher Northern tariffs reduce the incentives for outsourcing and offshoring, while higher … Southern tariffs have the opposite effects. I also show that increased offshoring and outsourcing imply a decrease in the ratio …

domestic and foreign plants. To do so, we examine the first wave of light-truck offshoring to Mexico that occurred due to … and Mexico for the same models of light trucks. Using a new dataset that details the extent of offshoring and domestic … “inshoring” the more complex varieties while offshoring the less complex versions. …

Existing models of offshoring are not equipped to explain how global production sharing affects the volatility of … economic activity. This paper develops a trade model that can account for why offshoring industries in low wage countries such … States. We argue that a key to explaining this outcome is that the extensive margin of offshoring responds endogenously to …

into foreign outsourcing. We show that multinational firms are able to shift profits abroad even if they fully comply with …

competition and two-way offshoring and to integrate theoretical results of the early offshoring literature. …

-level imports by country of origin and further distinguish between firm-level offshoring of final versus intermediate goods. Results … competition has no effect on firm survival, while offshoring of finished goods to China actually increases firms' probability of … in low-tech Belgian manufacturing over our period of analysis. Offshoring to China further accounts for a small but …