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Vertical Integration, Innovation and Foreclosure
Allain, Marie-Laure; Chambolle, Claire; Rey, Patrick - HAL - 2010
raising rivals' cost and limiting both upstream competition and downstream innovation. A similar concern of customer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794361
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Estimating import price elasticity while controlling for quality
Thanagopal, Thannaletchimy - HAL - 2011
quality innovation in the various goods sectors of an economy and 3) the limitations pertaining to the estimation of the true … import price elasticity as well as the policy implications of quality innovation on trade. In order to adjust for quality … effects, a quality proxy is constructed. This proxy considers the role of product innovation in the form of Research and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372658
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Downstream Competition, Foreclosure and Vertical Integration
Chemla, Gilles; Chemla, Gilles - HAL - 2003
This paper shows that dominant firms may wish to encourage competition in vertically-related markets. It shows that firms' incentives to vertically integrate other firms depends on the competitive environment.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535378
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Market Size and Vertical Equilibrium in the Context of Successive Cournot Oligopolies
Dufeu, Ivan - HAL - 2004
This paper illustrates the effect of market size on the decision of whether or not firms should vertically integrate or disintegrate. We use a model of two successive stages of production with Cournot competition in each stage. In this model, firms choose to specialize (either upstream or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008927077
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Firm development as an integrated process: with evidence from the General Motors - Fisher Body case
Dietrich, Michael; Krafft, Jackie - HAL - 2011
This paper argues that an adequate approach to the firm should be able to accommodate the complexities of actual firm development. The latter is conceptualized in terms of three general stages: prime movers or drivers of change, change processes, and change attractors. Furthermore, any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792191
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Sector-based explanation of vertical integration in distribution systems; Evidence from France
Chaudey, Magali; Fadairo, Muriel; Solard, Gwennaël - HAL - 2011
Based on recent data concerning the French distribution networks in retail and services, this paper highlights several stylized facts relating to the sector-based differences in the organizational choices. Until now this issue has not been studied in the economical literature. This paper...
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Credit Default Swaps, Contract Theory, Public Debt, and Fiat Money Regimes: Comment on Polleit and Mariano
Méra, Xavier - HAL - 2013
se unobjectionable from Rothbard's libertarian perspective on property rights and contract theory, but that they fail to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820940
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The organization of extended producer responsibility in waste policy with product differentiation
Fleckinger, Pierre; Glachant, Matthieu - HAL - 2010
The paper analyzes the efficiency of extended producer responsibility (EPR) for waste management. We consider a vertically differentiated duopoly where endogenous market quality affects waste disposal costs. Each producer has to meet a take-back requirement that forces it to collect and treat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372708
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Trade performances, product quality perceptions and the estimation of trade price-elasticities
Crozet, Matthieu; Erkel-Rousse, Hélène - HAL - 2004
Traditional trade models ignoring the dimension of product quality generally lead to excessively low trade price elasticities. In this paper, we show that higher estimated trade price elasticities, more in conformity with theory, can be obtained by controlling product quality in trade equations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750461
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Consumer confusion over the profusion of eco-labels: lessons from a double differentiation model.
Brécard, Dorothée - HAL - 2012
How are eco-label strategies affected by consumer confusion arising from the profusion of eco-labels? This article provides a theoretical insight into this issue using a double differentiation framework. We assume that consumers perceive a label as a sign of quality compared to an unlabeled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899780