We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing …. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions …

correspond to an increase in outsourcing by multinationals from the United States and other Northern countries, is to shift …

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

This paper exploits a unique offshoring survey to show that firms continue domestic production of the same goods they …. Firms' reactions also motivate a new offshoring measure - produced- good imports - that is readily observed in most firm …

-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …

Estimating the causal effect of offshoring on domestic employment is difficult because of the inherent simultaneity of …. Underlying these results is substantial heterogeneity based on offshoring margin and firm organizational structure. For example …

not accounted for by differences in workers' characteristics, occupations, nor for differences in the employers' locations …

integration of commodity markets (i.e., free trade) and international integration of factor markets (i.e., offshoring). In a two …-country, two-good, two-factor model we show that free trade and offshoring have opposite effects on rich-country workers. Free … trade hurts rich-country workers, while reducing the volatility of their wages; by contrast, offshoring benefits them, while …

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 … perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …