paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …

integration choices of firms around the world …

of China into the world economy may hurt countries that are driven to specialize in production due to HMEs, although …

impact of FDI in promoting the growth of host country exports and linkages to the outside world is clearer. The major role of … transfer of knowledge of world markets and of ways of fitting into worldwide production networks, not visible in standard …

multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics …

motley assortment of regional trade agreements is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade … and uses it to structure a narrative of world trade liberalisation since 1947. The logic is then used to project the world … mechanism ndash; spaghetti bowls as building blocs ndash; whereby offshoring creates a force that encourages the …

perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing … features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global …