these stages. This paper looks at both cost minimising and equilibrium offshoring under different technological … wide range of production stages. There can be overshooting (off-shoring that is reversed as costs fall further) and … equilibrium may involve less off-shoring than is efficient"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

focuses on tradable tasks and use it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country. We …

The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing … features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global … perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …