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Revealed preference on outsourcing
For the past three months E-Loan has offered customers a choice, process their loan paperwork in 12 days using all-domestic workers or 10 days by bringing on some workers in India - 90% chose the quicker turnaround.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on May 6, 2004 at 11:39 PM in Economics | Permalink
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