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 …

international statistical guidelines, profit shifting causes part of U.S. production generated by multinationals to be excluded from …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing … firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …

This paper studies price and quality differences across international intermediate input suppliers. We develop price …

Can a country gain international competitiveness by the design of optimal monetary stabilization rules? This paper … exports. The welfare gains from international policy coordination are large relative to the case of self-oriented, strategic …

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 …

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical … findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the … multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics …