Antonietti, Roberto; Ferrante, Maria Rosaria; Leoncini, … - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2009
By exploiting a new rich firm-level dataset, this paper investigates the decision to subcontract production activities (outsourcing) with respect to vertically integrate them. In particular, we aim at identifying the main factors underlying the decision to either fully or partially decentralise...