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Indirect control and power in mutual control structures

Peters H.J.M.; Karos D. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013

In a mutual control structure agents exercise control over each other. Typical examples occur in the area of corporate governance firms and investment companies exercise mutual control, in particular by owning each others stocks. In this paper we formulate a general model for such situations....

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Gazelles, Industry Growth and Structural Change

Bos Jaap W.B.; Erik, Stam - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2011

This paper examines to what extent gazelles are the drivers of the growth of industries and structural change. To this purpose we analyze gazelles over a 12 year period (annually from 1997 until 2008) in the Netherlands, and relate them to the dynamics in employment per industry. We use a panel...

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Collusion in a Price-Quantity Oligopoly

den, Berg Anita van; Iwan, Bos - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2011

In the context of an infinitely repeated oligopoly game, we study (optimal) collusion among firmsthat have both price and quantity as a strategic choice variable. We consider two modes ofproduction: production in advance and production to order. For both types of industry, we comparea price...

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Cartel Ringleaders and the Corporate Leniency Program

Iwan, Bos; Frederick, Wandschneider - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2011

Cartel ringleaders can apply for amnesty in some jurisdictions (e.g., the E.U.), whereas in othersthey are excluded (e.g., the U.S.). This paper provides a survey of identified ringleaders inrecent European cartel cases and explores theoretically the effect of ringleader exclusion oncollusive...

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Cooperation between research companies and manufacturing firms : the choice between market contract, vertical merger, and an R & D - alliance

Wegberg, Marc van - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 1995

two modes of cooperation: a merger and an R&D alliance. …

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Contestability and sunk costs: An analysis of product R&D competition

Bunte, F.; Maks, H. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 1997

The paper shows that Bertrand competition and contestability can be reconciled with sunk costs. When average total costs are constant over a range of output, marginal cost pricing does not conflict with the budget constraint faced by firms. Empirical observations support the notion of constant...

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Too Big to Innovate? Scale (dis)economies and the Competition-Innovation Relationship in U.S. Banking

Jaap, Bos; van, Lamoen Ryan; Claire, Economidou - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2010

This paper examines whether large U.S. banks have become ''too big to innovate''. We extend the theoretical work of Aghion et al. (2005b) by relaxing their assumption that unit costs are independent from output levels in order to investigate the effect of scale (dis)economies on the...

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Signalling for entry : limit pricing and reciprocal entry

Dixon, Stuart - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 1996

In this paper we enrich the Brabander (1981) and Brander and Krugman (1983) model of reciprocal entry by placing it i a … that the limit price is affected by a firm''s desire to deter entry and to increase its market share in the target country … asymmetric information in order to improve their market share. Hence,signallling for entry may arise even in the pooling …

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Testing for complementarity and substitutability in case of multiple practices

Boris, Lokshin; Martin, Carree; René, Belderbos - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2004

A number of recent empirical studies of firm-level productivity (growth) have been concerned with establishing potential complementarity between multiple organizational design practices. These papers have drawn conclusions on basis of the effect of the interaction term between each possible pair...

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An experimental comparison of sequential first- and second-price auctions with synergies

Kasper, Leufkens; Ronald, Peeters; Marc, Vorsatz - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2007

The presence of synergies in recurrent procurement auctions leads to an exposure problem and asymmetries among bidders. We consider sequential first- and second-price auctions with synergies in a setting with four bidders. In a series of experiments we compare the performance of the two pricing...

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