. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … estimate knowledge spillovers through outsourcing relationships between German firms, measured by the number of those firms …

In this paper, we study the role of risk-sharing in entrepreneurship-driven innovation. Studying entrepreneurship and … innovation entails modeling an occupational choice and an effort choice. Risk-sharing may increase the number of individuals who …