Beladi, Hamid; Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 1, pp. 210-219
We provide a new rationale for bi-sourcing, which refers to the situation where a final goods producer buys an input from an outside supplier and also produces it in-house. We also show the effects of the product market competition and the implications of different and common outside input...