This paper offers a rationale for limiting the delegation of (real) authority, which neither relies on insurance …

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 … decides whether to offshore inputs. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; property rights approach …

, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of … economic efficiency. Starting out from different theories, we investigate political explanations of government outsourcing … using a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time, as well as between services. Our …

We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete … magnitude of their contractibility problems. The empirical studies point at rather favourable outsourcing outcomes, in terms of …

. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …

; coordination ; authority ; incentives ; strategic information transmission …