reduce the relative prevalence of FDI or foreign outsourcing. The impact on the composition of offshoring depends on whether … supplier locations, and then study the effects of changes in the quality of contractual institutions on the relative prevalence … of these organizational forms. Better contracting institutions in the South raise the prevalence of offshoring, but may …

reshoring or offshoring. When the demand elasticity rises with price, two policy instruments generally are needed to achieve …

U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …

Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing … outsourcing less likely; (ii) complementarities between the investments of the buyer and the seller are also associated with less … outsourcing; (iii) property rights predictions on the link between investment intensities and optimal ownership are only supported …

different productivity levels choose different ownership structures and supplier locations, i.e., they choose different …