We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing …. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions …

In this book, Radlo increases understanding of offshoring, outsourcing and international production fragmentation, and … explanation of offshoring and outsourcing at both macroeconomic and microeconomic level, as well as an explanation of practical … analysis of offshoring and outsourcing, Radlo's text offers real insight into the global impact of production fragmentation …

U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …

This paper exploits a unique offshoring survey to show that firms continue domestic production of the same goods they …. Firms' reactions also motivate a new offshoring measure - produced- good imports - that is readily observed in most firm …

-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …

not accounted for by differences in workers' characteristics, occupations, nor for differences in the employers' locations …

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 …