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

According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital …. Fixed factor taxes have the potential to improve welfare by defusing the globalization trilemma through a reduction in the …

Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate … technologically determined sequence of production steps. In our model, cost savings from offshoring fluctuate along the production … from offshoring even if relocating individual steps would be advantageous. Conversely, small variations in model parameters …

of offshoring emphasized by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008) emerges as a vehicle of job creation. Improvements in the … technology of offshoring causes job losses at the extensive margin where ever more tasks are performed abroad, but it also causes … improvements in the technology of offshoring. -- offshoring ; trade in tasks ; unemployment ; search and matching …

, that induces offshoring, is not necessarily welfare-enhancing for consumers, despite the lower cost of labor in the South …. In addition, firms which use the supplier's component intensively, offshore their supplier in the South using outsourcing …