This paper studies how firms' offshoring decisions shape a country's domestic production networks. We develop a model … foreign suppliers, due to costly communication. Triggered by foreign countries' export supply shocks, firms start offshoring … net effect of offshoring on a firm’s domestic production networks depends on the relative strength of the three effects …

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

selling abroad. Because offshoring requires larger sunk costs than domestic sourcing, some firms decide to offshore only when … between the domestic and the foreign market are greater. In turn, offshoring firms sell greater volumes, display less …

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 …

inflation expectations among 145 tenured economics professors in Germany and exploit the 2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine as a …

. On February 24, 2022 with the Russian invasion on Ukraine one of the biggest events imaginable came to pass. Using …

, inter-firms arrears and barter in transition economies are connected. Based on a survey of 165 barter deals in the Ukraine …