This paper contributes to Hübler (2008) who analyses a partial equilibrium model of outsourcing with Cournot … manufactured by a Western (outsourcing) or Eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). The paper asks the question how …

explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the … outsourcing and global sourcing is found to be much weaker. …

goods and have thereby neglected the impact of international outsourcing. In this paper it is argued that outsourcing can be …

We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to …

outsourcing as possible determinants of market, cost and knowledge-related aspects of the competitiveness of firms. We find that …

, Japan and the United States engaged in outsourcing of relatively labor intensive segments of the value chain, especially on …

procurement increases international services outsourcing by between 1.6 and 2.5 percent for the FE and D-in-D matching estimators …. Although no existing work has yet reported effects for international materials outsourcing we find that Web procurement … decreases international materials outsourcing by between 2.2 and 3.7 percent. …

We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …