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This paper analyzes a sequential game where firms decide about outsourcing the production of a non-specific input good … Tirole (1984) to characterize the different equilibria. We find that outsourcing generally softens competition in the final … product market. If firms anticipate the impact of their outsourcing decisions on input prices, there may be equilibria where …
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both crucial for the emergence of outsourcing. The supplier purposefully avoids industry pro.t maximization to enlarge its …
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contracts is crucial for the emergence of outsourcing. The supplier purposefully avoids industry profit maximization to enlarge …
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In this paper we show how an upstream firm can prevent destructive competition among downstream firms producing relatively close substitutes by implementing a price-dependent profit-sharing rule. The rule also ensures that the downstream firms undertake investments which benefit the industry in...
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Alliances between competitors where an established firm provides access to its marketing and distribution channels are an important real-world phenomenon. We analyze a market where an established firm, firm A, produces a product of well-known quality, and a firm with an unknown brand, firm B,...
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The seminal paper by Salant, Switzer and Reynolds (1983) showed that merger in a standard Cournot framework with linear demand and linear costs is not profitable unless a large majority of the firms are involved in the merger. However, many strategic aspects matter for firm competition such as...
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