Ownership and control in outsourcing to China: Estimating the property-rights theory of the firm

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 729-761

  Feenstra, Robert C ^b   Hanson, Gordon H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 20444407345     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0033553053970188     Document Type: Article

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