outsourcing decisions are affected by changes in country and competitor costs. A number of interesting regularities emerge. When a … developed countries. In many cases, the measured responses to cost changes appear to correspond with outsourcing theories that …

We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …

Slaughter (1993), in this paper I try to determine the extent to which outsourcing by multinational corporations contributed to … multinationals in the 1980's. My main finding is that the data are inconsistent with U.S. multinationals having outsourced heavily in … firms. I find that most of these facts are inconsistent with widespread outsourcing. Second, to test more rigorously whether …

US exports in 2007. Despite their disproportionate share of global trade, MNEs' input sourcing and final-good production … decisions are often studied separately. Using newly merged data on firms' trade and FDI activity by country, we show that US … sourcing locations, and leads to non-monotonic responses in third markets to bilateral trade cost changes …

level. This relationship is similar to that found for Swedish and U.S. multinationals in parallel studies. A Japanese parent …, Japanese firms resembled U.S. multinationals. A Japanese parent's employment, given the level of its production, tends to be …

well as their activities in international trade. The size of the GVC activities identified with this framework roughly …

. Standard trade models typically recognize only the first role. In its role as an asset land reduces the amount of national … then likely to be reversed. Even when trade in claims on land equalizes the domestic and world interest rates, a tax on …