A service provider firm in an outsourcing relationship is distinct from a typical firm because it is not a stand alone …, rent, energy consumption cannot appropriately determine a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm's productivity. Academic … perspective of the host country, the sourcing firm, the global outsourcing industry and of course the service provider firm. In …

uncertainty by observing offshoring firms’ behaviour. The model characterises a sequential offshoring equilibrium path, led by the … Colombia, we test for the determinants and timing of offshoring decisions. We also derive spatial probit structural models to … identify the firms’ dynamic trade-off when they decide on the offshoring location. We find supportive evidence for the model …

The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms … probability. We also show that a firm’s probability of offshoring increases with the share of its employees who are immigrants …

affect the volume of offshoring between U.S. companies and their affiliates. The suggested argument is stronger for the …

labor market effects of offshoring. While theory focuses on one-sector or two-sector models, empirical studies exploit … variation in offshoring across a large number of industries, typically including a linear offshoring term in the analysis …. Thereby, these studies implicitly assume a monotonic relationship between offshoring and labor market outcomes and ignore …

by bilateral trade determinants (which underpin the patterns of “international value-added linkages”) and the global …

lack of a coercive global authority that is able to enforce efficient international environmental regulations. In our model … individual regions voluntarily commence international negotiations on public good provision, which are accompanied by side …, it is applicable to various international externality problems …

We study how a preferential trade agreement (PTA) affects international sourcing decisions, aggregate productivity and …