Market Concentration and International Outsourcing

This paper shows that market concentration is positively related to outsourcing activities in a framework of Cournot competition with strategic outsourcing in a first stage. The theoretical priors are confirmed by rank correlation coefficients between the intermediate goods import intensity and market concentration in the EU12 countries.

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Year of publication:	2001
Authors:	Egger, Hartmut ; Egger, Peter
Publisher:	Vienna : Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
Subject:	Marktmacht \| Outsourcing \| Oligopol \| Marktstruktur \| Theorie \| International outsourcing \| Oligopolistic competition

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Series:	WIFO Working Papers ; 166
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	862206685 [GVK] hdl:10419/128707 [Handle] RePEc:wfo:wpaper:y:2001:i:166 [RePEc]
Classification:	F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies ; F15 - Economic Integration ; F40 - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance. General ; L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Source:	EconStor

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