The Moon and Phillips Purchase Contract data is based on annually updated firm disclosures regarding their uses of purchase contracts in 10-Ks. The data is best described as a dynamic firm-year outsourcing intensity through the use of purchase contracts of publicly traded U.S. "manufacturing" firms that file 10-Ks. Please cite the following paper when using this data. Details regarding the creation and use of this data are also in the paper.

Moon, S. K., & Phillips, G. M. (2021). Outsourcing through purchase contracts and firm capital structure. Management Science, Vol. 67(1), 363-387 .

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