The benefit of reduced competition and the cost of information rent under outsourcing

DOI10.1111/J.1467-8586.2011.00397.XMaRDI QIDQ4899987zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kojun Hamada

Publication date 10 January 2013

Published in Bulletin of Economic Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8586.2011.00397.x

zbMATH Keywords

cost uncertaintydifferentiated duopolyin-house productioninformation rentoutsourcing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38) Economics of information (91B44) Special types of economic equilibria (91B52) Special types of economic markets (including Cournot, Bertrand) (91B54)

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Cites work

• Identification of classes of differential games for which the open loop is a degenerate feedback Nash equilibrium
• Integration versus Outsourcing in Industry Equilibrium
• Observable Contracts: Strategic Delegation and Cooperation
• Outsourcing in a Global Economy

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