-South theoretical framework, I show that higher Northern tariffs reduce the incentives for outsourcing and offshoring, while higher … Southern tariffs have the opposite effects. I also show that increased offshoring and outsourcing imply an increase in the …

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 …

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 …

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

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 in terms of offshoring costs, or they may …