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

outsourcing decisions are affected by changes in country and competitor costs. A number of interesting regularities emerge. When a … developed countries. In many cases, the measured responses to cost changes appear to correspond with outsourcing theories that …

In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We …

Slaughter (1993), in this paper I try to determine the extent to which outsourcing by multinational corporations contributed to … firms. I find that most of these facts are inconsistent with widespread outsourcing. Second, to test more rigorously whether … and in fact may be price complements. Taken together, these findings indicate that multinational outsourcing contributed …