Sourcing ; Family Firms ; Outsourcing ; Offshoring ; FDI … FDI coexists with international outsourcing, family firms unambiguously decrease FDI, whereas the effect on international … outsourcing is ambiguous: A substitution process may work towards an increase in international outsourcing activities. -- Global …

reduce the relative prevalence of FDI or foreign outsourcing. The impact on the composition of offshoring depends on whether … of these organizational forms. Better contracting institutions in the South raise the prevalence of offshoring, but may …

; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI … firms that are consistent with stylized facts from the recent empirical literature. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing …

increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition …

selling abroad. Because offshoring requires larger sunk costs than domestic sourcing, some firms decide to offshore only when … between the domestic and the foreign market are greater. In turn, offshoring firms sell greater volumes, display less …

uncertainty by observing offshoring firms' behaviour. The model characterises a sequential offshoring equilibrium path, led by the … Colombia, we test for the determinants and timing of offshoring decisions. We also derive spatial probit structural models to … identify the firms' dynamic trade-off when they decide on the offshoring location. We find supportive evidence for the model …

. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …

-South theoretical framework, I show that higher Northern tariffs reduce the incentives for outsourcing and offshoring, while higher … Southern tariffs have the opposite effects. I also show that increased offshoring and outsourcing imply an increase in the …. -- Intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; outsourcing tariffs …