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Optimal ownership in joint ventures with contributions of asymmetric partners

MARINUCCI, Marco - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008

This paper faces two questions concerning Joint Ventures (JV) agreements. First, we study how the partners contribution affect the creation and the profit sharing of a JV when partners' effort is not observable. Then, we see whether such agreements are easier to enforce when the decision on JV...

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Home market effect versus multinationals

TOULEMONDE, Eric - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007

In this paper, based on the cyclic scheduling formulation of Schilling and Pantelides [22], we propose a continuous time mixed integer linear programming (MILP) formulation for the cyclic scheduling of a mixed plant, i.e. a plant composed of batch and continuous tasks. The cycle duration is a...

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Common and separate ownership of projects

GAUTIER, Axel - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2002

This note points out the differences between conducting several projects within one big firm (common ownership) and conducting each project within an independent firm (separate ownership).

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Property Rights and Market : Employee Privatization as a Cooperative Bargaining Process

MARINI, Marco - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1996

The paper presents a game-theoretic model to investigate to what extent an employee privatization program of a State owned firm can be feasible under certain assumptions concerning the players' objective functions and the market structure in which the firm operates. The public managers are...

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Property Rights and Market: Employee Privatization as a Cooperative Bargaining Process.

Marini, M. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1996

The paper presents a game-theoretic model to investigate to what extent an employee privatization program of State owned firm can be feasible under certain assumptions concerning the players objective functions and the market structure in which the firm operates.

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High-end variety exporters defying distance: micro facts and macroeconomic implications

MARTIN, Julien; MAYNERIS, Florian - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2013

diversification of their aggregate exports. These facts are explained by a lower sensitivity to distance of high-end variety export … increase the volatility of high-end variety exports. However, a lower sensitivity to distance reduces volatility through a … greater geographic diversification. Furthermore, we point out that a lower sensitivity to distance allows high-end varieties …

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Endogenous network formation in patent contests and its role as a barrier to entry

MARINUCCI, Marco; VERGOTE, Wouter - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2009

In a setting of R&D co-opetition we study, by using an all-pay auction approach, how collaboration affects strategic decisions during a patent contest, and how the latter influences the possible collaboration network structures the firms can hope to form. The all pay auction approach allows us...

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Dynamic joint investments in supply chains under information asymmetry

AGRELL, Per; KASPERZEC, Roman - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2010

Supply chain management involves the selection, coordination and motivation of independently operated suppliers. However the central planner's perspective in operations management translates poorly to vertically separated chains, where suppliers may have rational myopic reasons to object to full...

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United we stand? Coordinating capacity investment and allocation in joint ventures

ROELS, Guillaume; CHEVALIER, Philippe; WEI, Ying - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2012

Among the recent innovative strategies for coping with product variety and market risk some firms have partnered to leverage economies of scale and risk pooling by sharing manufacturing capacity. In this paper we study how to structure such a joint venture to achieve full efficiency at low...

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Modelling Practical Lot-Sizing Problems as Mixed iInteger Programs.

Belvaux, G.; Wolsley, L.A. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2000

After reviewing some of the basic preprocessins techniques for handling safety stocks and multilevel problems, we discusss a variety of aspects arising particularly in small and large bucket (time period) models such as stars-ups, changeovers, minimum batch sizes, choice of one or two set-ups...

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