arm’s length. The model further implies that firms are more likely to offshore when frictions in the provision of services …

Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two …

In this paper we model the demand for immigrants as a trade-off native voters face between having services, produced by … services. Assimilated immigrants take on skilled jobs. At the political level natives choose the number of immigrants that can … be allowed, given some fixed price for services. We show that, at the assumed price, it is never optimal for natives to …

both crucial for the emergence of outsourcing. The supplier purposefully avoids industry pro.t maximization to enlarge its …