We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry (“narrow … off-shoring”) is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way …

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships … in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based measures of trade costs …. This paper investigates spatial interactions for services FDI using several distance measures, including physical distance …

OECD countries vis-à-vis 69 exporters. Competition in services affects the volume of goods trade while the market structure … competition apparently matters most for exporters in smaller, poorer countries. By ignoring the structure of the domestic services …

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are …