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 …

This paper analyzes the off-shoring strategy from an empirical view. It focuses on a set of models, extracts a set of … French manufacturing firms that provides detailed information on the off-shoring strategy. The choice of off-shoring modes is …

We construct a new linked data set with over one thousand offshoring events by matching Trade Adjustment Assistance … program petition data to confidential data on U.S. firm operations. We exploit these data to assess how offshoring affects … offshoring involves a fixed cost, we find that the average offshoring firm is larger and more productive than the average non …

evidence is consistent with a simple multi-period model, illustrating how offshoring, on the one side, and reshoring or plant …

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 …

evidence is consistent with a simple multi-period model, illustrating how offshoring, on the one side, and reshoring or plant …

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 …

pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …