Trade liberalization and strategic outsourcing

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chen, YM; Ishikawa, J; Yu, ZH
• 署名单位: Carleton University; Hitotsubashi University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(03)00056-4
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 419-436
• 关键词: Outsourcing; vertical oligopolies; collusive effect

摘要

This paper develops a model of strategic outsourcing. With trade liberalization in the intermediate-product market, a domestic firm may choose to purchase a key intermediate good from a more efficient foreign producer, who also competes with the domestic firm for a final good. This has a strategic effect on competition. Unlike the outsourcing motivated by cost saving, the strategic outsourcing has a collusive effect that could raise the prices of both intermediate and final goods. Trade liberalization in the intermediate-good market has a very different effect compared with trade liberalization in the final-good market. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.