Shy, Oz; Stenbacka, Rune - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 38 (2005) 4, pp. 1173-1190
We investigate firms' outsourcing decisions when production requires a large number of inputs. The novelty of our approach is that it provides a testable framework to characterize the equilibrium fraction of outsourced inputs. We demonstrate that intensified competition in a Cournot market for...