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

DOI10.1111/J.1467-8586.2011.00397.XzbMATH Open1254.91370OpenAlexW1973454961MaRDI QIDQ4899987FDOQ4899987

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

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zbMATH Keywords

cost uncertaintyoutsourcinginformation rentdifferentiated duopolyin-house production

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)

Cites Work

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

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