研討日期	2016年5月14日上午12:00 ~ 13:10
研討地點	台大社會科學院710討論室
主講題目	Sourcing strategies of a multi-input-multi-product firm
作者	Michael Kopel, Clemens Löffler, Thomas Pfeiffer
文獻出處
主講人	王佳琪
參加人員	萬書言、王佳琪、張博涵、黃鴻、林燕淑、周冰瑤、王光正、陳金盛、高國峯、
摘要	Firms commonly manufacture multiple products using multiple complementary inputs. The multi-input-multi-product environment generates interactions among products yielding the following results for the firm’s sourcing strategies: (i) A multi-input-multi-product firm might optimally deviate from an isolated least-cost comparison, i.e. might produce in-house even if marginal in-house production cost exceeds the per-unit input price (and vice versa). Such a deviation can be optimal even if the input supplier can engage in price discrimination and can condition its input prices on the individual products that the firm manufactures. (ii) An outsourcing wave can arise in that concurrently outsourcing all inputs can be profitable for the firm even though outsourcing each input individually is unprofitable. (iii) More competition on the supplier market can decrease the multi-input-multi-product firm’s profit.