STRATEGIC OUTSOURCING UNDER ECONOMIES OF SCALE

Yutian Chen and Debapriya Sen

Bulletin of Economic Research, 2015, vol. 67, issue 2, 134-145

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We show that economies of scale in upstream production can lead both the disintegrated downstream firm as well as its vertically integrated rival to outsource offshore for intermediate goods, even if offshore production has a moderate cost disadvantage compared to in-house production of the vertically integrated firm.

Date: 2015
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