Firm-asymmetry and strategic outsourcing

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Firm-asymmetry and strategic outsourcing

In contrast to the conventional wisdom, we show that a final goods producer may outsource input production to an outside supplier even if the final goods producer possesses a superior input-production technology compared to the outside supplier. Such an outsourcing may reduce consumer surplus and so...

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Main Authors:	Cao, Jiyun, Mukherjee, Arijit, Sinha, Uday Bhanu
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 2017
Subjects:	Outsourcing; Consumer surplus; Welfare
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47200/

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