Expertise, i.e. a system of involving experts and expert organizations, is one of the most important functions of the state control and supervising activity. The purpose of the work is to identify the international trends in using different mechanisms to involve experts and expert organizations...

I study the interaction between optimal procurement and outsourcing of production in small industries. First, two sellers decide about outsourcing. By outsourcing, a seller loses information about the costs of producing to his supplier. Then the buyer designs the procurement mechanism and...