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来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.54,P.377-395

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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 S. LaSalle, Chicago, IL 60604, USA"}]}]}],"floats":[],"footnotes":[],"affiliations":{"aep-affiliation-id2":{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aep-affiliation-id2;Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 S. LaSalle, Chicago, IL 60604, USA"}]}},"attachments":[],"correspondences":{},"scopusAuthorIds":{},"articles":{}},"authorMetadata":[],"banner":{"expanded":false},"biographies":{},"body":{},"browser":{"name":"IE","engine":"Trident

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In this paper, I study whether there is any evidence that the market scale surrounding a central administrative office (CAO) has any relation to a firm's cost-effectiveness in procuring business services. By linking plant-level data from the 1992 Annual Survey of Manufactures with CAO information from the Survey of Auxiliary Establishments, I examine manufacturing plants' practice of outsourcing services in relation to the size of the local service market surrounding the plant and that surrounding the plant's CAO. I found evidence which suggests that the greater the size of local market surrounding a CAO, the higher the plant's probability of relying on the CAO for outsourcing advertising, bookkeeping and accounting, and legal services.