distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm's choice is … model. -- productivity ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; foreign direct investment ; incomplete contracts ; firm-level data …

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

Professor Willcocks and Professor Lacity examine the economic determinants and outcomes of outsourcing and offshoring …, Elhanan Helpman, and Adam Szeidl (2005), 'Complementarities between Outsourcing and Foreign Sourcing', American Economic … in Outsourcing to China: Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120 (2), May …

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs … through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of …