firms also have positive repercussions on the productivity and globalisation decisions of firms active solely on the home … offshoring are comparable. Finally, while multinationals manage their workforce more flexibly than domestic firms, they have …

analytically in a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms that a fall in variable offshoring costs boosts trade in … call the export-magnification effect of offshoring. More specifically, lower barriers to offshoring reduce the average … costs of inputs for offshoring firms and allow more firms to source cheap foreign intermediates, which improves firm …

export-magnification effect of offshoring. We show analytically in a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms that … a fall in variable offshoring costs boosts trade in differentiated final goods through an intra-industry reallocation of … resources towards the more productive firms. More specifically, lower barriers to offshoring reduce the average costs of inputs …

offshoring. The results show that US multinationals are signiScantly more likely to perform a stage of production at a foreign …