; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI … firms that are consistent with stylized facts from the recent empirical literature. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing …

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 …

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 …

multinationals, are less likely to rely on imported or internally provided services. -- international trade ; services ; off-shoring …

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 …

organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the "indirect … outsourcing of the "less important" supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer … decides whether to offshore inputs. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; property rights approach …

Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate … technologically determined sequence of production steps. In our model, cost savings from offshoring fluctuate along the production … from offshoring even if relocating individual steps would be advantageous. Conversely, small variations in model parameters …

input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as well as the location of intermediate input production (offshore vs … intensity, but favors outsourcing in industries of high sourcing intensity. Moreover, we find that productivity boosts … offshoring throughout all industries, with the effect increasing monotonically in the sourcing intensity. Our results lend strong …