causes and consequences of outsourcing. While much of this work has focused on the outsourcing versus domestic production … decision of the firm with labor cost-saving as the key driver for outsourcing, we further explore how preference …-based outsourcing may arise in a dynamic world equilibrium. We address this problem in a North-South model in which the outsourcing …

down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technology-related-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …

firms that are consistent with stylized facts from the recent empirical literature. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing …

Feenstra and Hanson (1997) have argued in the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement that US outsourcing to … skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland. In Austria …. In both countries outsourcing contributes roughly 35 percent to these changes in the relative wages for skilled workers …

into foreign outsourcing. We show that multinational firms are able to shift profits abroad even if they fully comply with … provides a new rationale for the empirically observed lower tax burden of multinational corporations. -- outsourcing ; profit …

organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the "indirect … outsourcing of the "less important" supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer … decides whether to offshore inputs. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; property rights approach …

international outsourcing and "unethical" production are linked through a novel unethical outsourcing incentive, for which we also … the supplier's country favor international outsourcing (as opposed to vertical FDI). We also provide a microfounded model …