. 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 …

is, the growth-uncertainty relationship depends on whether returns to scale in knowledge creation are increasing or non …

this analysis is that the relationship between long-run growth and uncertainty (on the productivity of knowledge creation …) depends on two main factors - the returns to scale in knowledge creation (increasing or non-increasing) and the value of the … scale in knowledge creation (non-increasing) and the value of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (higher than the …