In-house and arm's length: productivity heterogeneity and variation in organizational form
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- D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
- F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
- L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
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