研討日期 |
2003年5月31日上午10:00 ~ 下午1:00 |
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研討地點 |
台大經濟系201教室 |
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討論文獻 |
題目 |
作者 |
文獻出處 |
Trade Liberalization and strategic
Outsourcing |
Yongmin Chen;
Lota Ishikawa; Zhihao Yu |
Journal of International Economics, forthcoming |
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報告人 |
施冠宇 |
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參加人員 |
胡均立、邱俊榮、林燕淑、楊雅博、吳世傑、王光正、吳芝文、劉惠玲、施冠宇、廖峻毅、張筑雅、陳玉晏、蔡明芳、柯美如、黃祥斌 |
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討論提要 |
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 could have a very different effect compared with
trade liberalization in the final-good market. |
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結論 |
First, trade liberalization for the intermediate input would lead
to strategic outsourcing. But when the strategic outsourcing occurs, the
domestic firm may actually pay more (including the tariff) for the
intermediate input than it would cost to produce the good domestically,
resulting in higher prices for the final product. Second, in contrast to the common view in the current
literature, we show that in the outsourcing equilibrium, further trade
liberalization in the intermediate input could raise the prices of both the intermediate and final
products. Third, the effects on the intermediate and final products of trade
liberalization in the final-good market are very different from those in the
intermediate-good market, depending on the demand characteristics of the
final goods. For instance, when trade liberalization in the final good
reduces consumer prices, trade liberalization in the intermediate good could
have an opposite effect. |
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延伸研究 |
We may apply the framework of this paper to consider effective
protection and optimal trade policies by governments in vertically related
market. |
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備註 |
吳世傑老師及王光正老師將就本文模型發展進一步的研究。 |