This paper studies how firms' offshoring decisions shape a country's domestic production networks. We develop a model … foreign suppliers, due to costly communication. Triggered by foreign countries' export supply shocks, firms start offshoring … net effect of offshoring on a firm’s domestic production networks depends on the relative strength of the three effects …

larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of offshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international …

augmented gravity model for trade, we find that Dutch in-house offshoring to China and the Dutch distribution function can … typical examples of outsourcing tasks, rather than outsourcing the production of goods …

determinants of the choice between vertical integration and outsourcing at the international level. Our results show that the … significance of the inputs in the cost share of the firm. Our findings provide support for the property right models of offshoring …