The possibility to outsource over the internet should revolutionize foreign outsourcing, especially for services (UNCTAD, 2004). Our model describes materials and services input allocation from domestic vs. foreign suppliers. Allocations change when firms outsource online due to access and...

Empirical studies dealing with price uncertainty are abundant; for example, Arshanapalli and Gupta (1996) derived estimating equations by applying uncertainty analogues of Hotelling's lemma and Roy's identity to the indirect expected utility function (see Pope, 1980, and, Dalal 1990). However,...

Paroush and Wolf (1989) modeled output hedging in the presence of basis risk. They showed that (in the absence of scale shift) the optimal hedging and output fall in response to basis risk. However, they used a second-order Taylor's approximation of the utility function. Also, they did not show...