the public concern can be addressed that international fragmentation and outsourcing to low wage countries lead to … outsourcing and critically assess the role of political intervention that aims to reduce unemployment benefits under …

multiple complementary inputs and the entry of a supplier into the final good market gives rise to mutual outsourcing of inputs … between the encroaching supplier and the incumbent. We show that, post encroachment, mutual outsourcing between the competing … mutual outsourcing. Our analysis yields novel managerial, empirical and policy implications. …

input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as well as the location of intermediate input production (offshore vs … (2004). This model invokes the property rights theory of the firm in order to pin down firm boundaries as the outcome of an … intensity, but favors outsourcing in industries of high sourcing intensity. Moreover, we find that productivity boosts …

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and … firms that are consistent with stylized facts from the recent empirical literature. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing …

in line with the predictions of our theory. In particular, we find that the share of short-term collaborations is higher …