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Trade Liberalization and Strategic Outsourcing

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Yongmin Chen (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)
Zhihao Yu () (Department of Economics, Carleton University)

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Abstract

This paper develops a model of strategic outsourcing. With trade liberalization in the intermediate-product market, a domestic firm may choose to purchase a key intermediate good from a more efficient foreign producer, who also competes with the domestic firm for a final good. This has a strategic effect on competition. Unlike the outsourcing motivated by cost saving, the strategic outsourcing has a collusive effect that could raise the prices of both intermediate and final goods. Trade liberalization in the intermediate-good market has a very different effect compared with trade liberalization in the final-good market.

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Paper provided by Carleton University, Department of Economics in its series Carleton Economic Papers with number 02-12.

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Date of creation: 01 Dec 2002
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Keywords: Outsourcing Vertical oligopolies Collusive effect

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F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies
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