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

be performed at home or abroad, but offshoring entails costs that vary by task. In equilibrium, the tasks with the … highest offshoring costs may not be traded. Among the remainder, those with the relatively higher offshoring costs are …

tradable tasks and use it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country. We identify a …

When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I-O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …

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

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 …

We study the determinants of the location of sub-contracted activity in a general equilibrium model of outsourcing and … trade. We model outsourcing as an activity that requires search for a partner and relationship-specific investments that are … governed by incomplete contracts. The extent of international outsourcing depends inter alia on the thickness of the domestic …