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Holmes, Thomas J. - 2018

This paper develops and estimates a model of indivisibilities in shipping and economies of scale in consolidation. It uses highly detailed data on imports for which it is possible to observe the contents of individual containers. In the model, a firm is able to adapt to indivisibility...

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Distribution Capital and the Short- and Long-Run Import Demand Elasticity

Crucini, Mario J. - 2013

The elasticity of substitution between home and foreign goods is one of the most important parameters in international economics. The international macro literature, which is primarily concerned with short-run business cycle fluctuations, assigns a low value to this parameter. The international...

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The Modern Wholesaler : Global Sourcing, Domestic Distribution, and Scale Economies

Ganapati, Sharat - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Nearly half of all transactions in the $5 trillion market for manufactured goods in the United States were intermediated by wholesalers in 2012, up from 32 percent in 1992. Seventy percent of this increase is due to the growth of "superstar" firms - the largest one percent of wholesalers....

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A Theory of Pyramidal Ownership and Family Business Groups

Almeida, Heitor - 2005

We provide a rationale for pyramidal ownership (the control of a firm through a chain of ownership relations) that departs from the traditional argument that pyramids arise to separate cash flow from voting rights. With a pyramidal structure, a family uses a firm it already controls to set up a...

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Incentives, Information, and Organizational Design

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 1989

This paper explores the interaction between incentives, information, and organizational design. It argues that the virtues of the market economy do not lie so much in the vision of competition and decentralization embodied in the Arrow-Debreu model, or the Lange-Lerner-Taylor analysis of market...

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Incomplete Contracts and the Internal Organization of Firms

Aghion, Philippe - 2013

of factors highlighted in the theory are shown to be important in accounting for delegation, such as heterogeneity and …

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A Model of Influencer Economy

Cong, Lin William; Li, Siguang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

With the rise of social media and streaming platforms, firms and brand-owners increasingly depend on influencers to attract consumers, who care about both common product quality and consumer-influencer interaction. Sellers thus compete in both influencer and product markets. As outreach and...

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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition : The Effect of Trade Liberalization

Guadalupe, Maria - 2008

This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i)...

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Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms

Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2015

involves the organization of production in terms of the number of layers of management the firm decides to employ. Using … as a result of an exogenous demand or productivity shock that makes the firm reorganize and add a management layer …

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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics : Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects

Kueng, Lorenz - 2014

-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include organizational capital accumulation and management practices, financial … empirical successes and shortcomings of current theory. First, models of organizational capital and innovation are broadly … organization and innovation. Second, among theories we analyze, organizational capital and management practices are the most …

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