Lafontaine, Francine; Slade, Margaret - In: Journal of Economic Literature 45 (2007) 3, pp. 629-685
Since Ronald H. Coase's (1937) seminal paper, a rich set of theories has been developed that deal with firm boundaries in vertical or input–output structures. In the last twenty-five years, empirical evidence that can shed light on those theories also has been accumulating. We review the...