This paper contributes to Hübler (2008) who analyses a partial equilibrium model of outsourcing with Cournot … manufactured by a Western (outsourcing) or Eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). The paper asks the question how … regions. -- Offshoring ; outsourcing ; Cournot competition ; intermediate goods ; high-skilled ; low-skilled …

We consider a downstream duopoly model with a monopolistic common supplier and mutual outsourcing between the two … incorporate managerial delegations into the duopoly model because deciding on organizational forms within a firm is critical to …

Using decentralized Nash bargaining with two-part tariff under mutual outsourcing between symmetric downstream firms … the mutual outsourcing has become a common business practice in technology intensive industries. We show that asymmetric …

We study ex post outsourcing of production in an imperfectly discriminating contest, interpreted here as a research … tournament or a procurement contest for being awarded some production contract. We find that the possibility of outsourcing …, outsourcing reduces the procurement costs of inducing a given level of effort if the contest organizer can collect entry fees …