Inter-firm contracts

The Handbook of Organizational Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 958-1013

  Lafontaine, Francine ^a   Slade, Margaret E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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