This paper studies an outsourcing problem where two service providers (suppliers) compete for the service contract from …'s information sharing decisions. The first decision is about whether the client should help the less-informed supplier get better … leveling the informational ground is beneficial to the client. The second decision is about how much information the client …

examine the implication of our model. Consistent with the theory, we find that producers of products whose sales rely more on …

This paper considers a model with two competing supply chains where production costs are private information within a …