We set up a model of offshoring with heterogeneous producers that captures two empirical regularities of German … offshoring firms. There is selection of larger, more productive firms into offshoring. However, the selection is not sharp, and … offshoring and non-offshoring firms coexist over a wide range of the revenue distribution. An overlap of offshoring and non-offshoring …

multinationals, are less likely to rely on imported or internally provided services. -- international trade ; services ; off-shoring …