market place (outsourcing) …

vertical integration and different performance margins. Outsourcing facilitates access to cutting-edge technology and the use …. Together, these effects highlight a crucial tradeoff: while outsourcing is associated with higher levels of initial performance …

While outsourcing of production from the U.S. to Mexico has been hailed in Mexico as a valuable engine of growth … literature to study the second moment properties of outsourcing. We begin by documenting a new stylized fact: the maquiladora … outsourcing industries in Mexico experience fluctuations in value added that are roughly twice as volatile as the corresponding …

), foreign and domestic employees appear to be substitutes. For these firms, lower wages in affiliate locations are associated … associated with higher US manufacturing employment. These offsetting effects may be combined to show that offshoring is …

relevant prevalence of outsourcing and foreign direct investment …

We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …

, and this creates managerial overload, and discourages innovation. Outsourcing of some production activities mitigates the … frontier, the value of innovation increases, encouraging outsourcing …