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Consolidating the Water Industry: An Analysis of the Potential Gains from Horizontal Integration in a Conditional Efficiency Framework
Zschille, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The German potable water supply industry is regarded as being highly fragmented, thus inhibiting high potentials for efficiency improvements through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential...
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Market Size, Division of Labor, and Firm Productivity
Chaney, Thomas; Ossa, Ralph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We generalize Krugman's (1979) 'new trade' model by allowing for an explicit production chain in which a range of tasks is performed sequentially by a number of specialized teams. We demonstrate that an increase in market size induces a deeper division of labor among these teams which leads to...
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The relation between competition and innovation -- Why is it such a mess?
Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative … relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition. The paper also shows that competition is more likely to increase the … investments of leaders than those of laggards. When R&D-spillovers are strong, competition is less likely to increase investments …
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Price and Brand Competition between Differentiated Retailers: A Structural Econometric Model
Dubois, Pierre; Jodar Rosell, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We develop a model of competition between retailer chains with a structural estimation of the demand and supply in the … can serve as a differentiation tool for the retailers in order to soften price competition. They may affect the marginal … simultaneous competition game in brand offer and price between retailers to identify marginal costs. After estimation by simulated …
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Contractual Execution, Strategic Incompleteness and Venture Capital
Dessí, Roberta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Contractual execution generates hard information, available to the contracting parties, even when contracts are secretly executed. Building on this simple observation, the paper shows that incomplete contracts can be preferred to complete contracts. This is because (i) execution of incomplete...
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Monopoly Practises and Competitive Behaviour in the French Satellite Pay-TV Market
Cincera, Michele; Noury, Abdul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
collusive behaviours in favour of Stackelberg competition with the incumbent as the leader. A preliminary comparison with the UK … results, we argue that the difference can be explained by more competition between firms in the French case. …
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Competition and Trust: Evidence from German Car Manufacturers
Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; Stahl, Konrad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...
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Venture Capital and Knowledge Transfer
Dessí, Roberta; Yin, Nina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
transfer, and their implications for investment, innovation, and product market competition. The model also sheds light on the …
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In-House Competition, Organizational Slack and the Business Cycle
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Tournas, Yanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
tighter in booms, slack increases in booms, because the power of in-house competition is reduced, while the opposite is true …
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Team Production in Competitive Labor Markets with Adverse Selection
Kosfeld, Michael; Von Siemens, Ferdinand - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team’s performance and therefore on their colleagues’ productivity. We study...
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