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The impact of coordination and information on transport procurement

Brusset, Xavier - EconWPA - 2005

Transport cost is second in importance after production cost in industry. It is the purpose of the present paper to study the impact of information sharing and contractual instruments between a supply chain and its transport suppliers. After reviewing the literature, we propose a model to...

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Information sharing and the stability of cooperation in research joint ventures

Atallah, Gamal - EconWPA - 2000

The model studies information sharing and the stability of cooperation in cost reducing Research Joint Ventures (RJVs). In a three-stage game- theoretic framework, firms decide on participation in a RJV, information sharing along with R&D expenditures, and output. An important feature of the...

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The Economic Incentives for Sharing Security Information

Gal-Or, Esther; Ghose, Anindya - EconWPA - 2005

Given that Information Technology (IT) security has emerged as an important issue in the last few years, the subject of security information sharing among firms, as a tool to minimize security breaches, has gained the interest of practitioners and academics. To promote the disclosure and sharing...

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Insisting on a Non-Negative Price: Oligopoly, Uncertainty, Welfare, and Multiple Equilibria

Lagerlof, Johan - EconWPA - 2003

I study Cournot competition under incomplete information about demand while assuming that market price must be non-negative for all demand realizations. Although this assumption is very natural, it has only rarely been made in the earlier literature. Yet it has important economic consequences:...

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Transport contract optimization under information asymmetry: an example

Brusset, Xavier; Temme, Nico - EconWPA - 2005

The present paper shows why information asymmetry and bivariate stochastic demand and spot price induce different behaviours and economic inefficiency in a carrier – shipper relationship. An example is offered of a single period, single echelon, shipper-carrier transport model where demand...

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Giving Gossips Their Due: Information Provision in Games with Private Monitoring

Gazzale, Robert - EconWPA - 2005

The ability of a long-lived seller to maintain and profit from a good reputation may induce her to provide high quality or effort despite short-run incentives to the contrary. This incentive remains in place with private monitoring, provided that buyers share their information. However, this...

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Why Funds of Funds?

Lai, Richard Kum-yew - EconWPA - 2005

Private equity funds of funds (FOFs) have become big business. Today, FOFs form 14% of new money raised. I test six explanations for the rise of FOFs. First, I find that FOFs do not generally deliver superior returns. They do, however, do well enough for the limited partners (LPs) that hire...

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IS OUTSOURCING REALLY AS BAD AS IT IS MADE TO SOUND? A RE- ASSESSMENT AND SOME PERSPECTIVE

Rishi, Meenakshi; Saxena, Sweta C. - EconWPA - 2005

The debate on outsourcing of skilled jobs to India has recently picked up steam and has become a hot election …-year issue. Bills put forth in almost twenty five states have provisions that seek to limit the outsourcing trend. This paper … visits some issues concerning outsourcing in order to provide nuance to some of the rhetoric. In particular, we discuss the …

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The Muddles over Outsourcing

Bhagwati, Jagdish; Panagariya, Arvind; Srinivasan, T. N. - EconWPA - 2004

Critics have muddled the public debate over offshore outsourcing by using the term interchangeably to refer to … argue that clarity requires distinguishing among these various phenomena and define outsourcing explicitly as the services … the recent “outsourcing” debate. Under this definition, the total number of the U.S. jobs outsourced annually is minuscule …

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THE OUTSOURCING DECISION: A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

Globerman, Steven; Vining, Aidan - EconWPA - 2004

Outsourcing grew rapidly during the 1990s and has now become an accepted dimension of corporate strategy. While … outsourcing continues to grow in importance, the nature and focus of outsourcing is evolving. Historically, most outsourcing took … services, outsourcing is becoming increasingly cross- national and global. The growth of international outsourcing has …

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