to shut down and relocate increases the average size of firms. The analysis also shows that outsourcing or contracting …

We study ex post outsourcing of production in an imperfectly discriminating contest, interpreted here as a research … tournament or a procurement contest for being awarded some production contract. We find that the possibility of outsourcing …, outsourcing reduces the procurement costs of inducing a given level of effort if the contest organizer can collect entry fees …

abatement outsourcing are highlighted, qualifications and refinements of the theory of vertical integration are then proposed …

welfare implications of vertical licensing. …

over eight years I test predictions from both TCE and RBV with regard to the outsourcing of patent related services …

The goal of this paper is to develop a comprehensive research agenda to analyze trends in domestic outsourcing in the … process, we review definitions of outsourcing, the available scant empirical research, and limitations of existing data … predictions about likely impacts on job quality. We then lay out in detail a major research initiative on domestic outsourcing …