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Outsourcing when Investments are Specific and Complementary
Lileeva, Alla - 2008
Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing … outsourcing less likely; (ii) complementarities between the investments of the buyer and the seller are also associated with less … outsourcing; (iii) property rights predictions on the link between investment intensities and optimal ownership are only supported …
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Global Sourcing
Antràs, Pol - 2003
We present a North South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral characteristics, firms decide whether to integrate into the...
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Effects of Product Availability : Experimental Evidence
Conlon, Christopher T. - 2010
Product availability impacts many industries such as transportation, events, and retail, yet little empirical evidence documents the importance of stocking decisions for firm profits, vertical relationships, or consumers. We conduct several experiments, exogenously removing top-selling products...
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Determinants of Firm Boundaries : Empirical Analysis of the Japanese Auto Industry from 1984 to 2002
Nagaoka, Sadao - 2007
We have assessed the determinants of the choice of integration, relational contracting (keiretsu sourcing) and market sourcing by seven Japanese automobile manufacturers (OEMs) with respect to 54 components in light of contract economics. Our major findings are the following. First, the...
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Time as a Trade Barrier
Hummels, David - 2012
A large and growing share of international trade is carried on airplanes. Air cargo is many times more expensive than maritime transport but arrives in destination markets much faster. We model firms' choice between exporting goods using fast but expensive air cargo and slow but cheap ocean...
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Why Are Process Monitoring Technologies Valuable? The Use of On-Board Information Technology in the Trucking Industry
Hubbard, Thomas N. - 1998
Recent advances in information technology (IT) have enabled firms in many industries to give middle managers new access to timely production data. Process monitoring' technologies give distant managers a window to production which can both lower their cost of monitoring subordinates and provide...
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Global Supply Chains and Wage Inequality
Costinot, Arnaud - 2012
A salient feature of globalization in recent decades is the emergence of "global supply chains" in which different countries specialize in different stages of a sequential production process. In Arnaud Costinot, Jonathan Vogel and Su Wang (2011), CVW hereafter, we have developed a simple theory...
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The Strategic Positioning of Store Brands in Retailer - Manufacturer Bargaining
Morton, Fiona Scott - 2000
We argue in this paper that retailers can strategically position store brands in product space to strengthen their bargaining position when negotiating supply terms with manufacturers of national brands. Using a bargaining framework we model a retailer's decision whether to carry an additional...
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Keiretsu and Relationship-Specific Investment : A Barrier to Trade?
Spencer, Barbara J. - 2000
This paper develops a model of informal procurement within Japanese keiretsu so as to consider effects on intermediate-good imports, such as auto parts. Parts-suppliers make relationship-specific investments that benefit the auto-maker and prices are determined by bargaining after investment has...
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Intermediaries in Bargaining : Evidence from Business-to-Business Used-Car Inventory Negotiations
Larsen, Bradley J.; Lu, Hengheng; Zhang, Anthony Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We analyze data on tens of thousands of alternating-offer, business-to-business negotiations in the wholesale used-car market, with each negotiation mediated (over the phone) by a third-party company. The data shows the identity of the employee mediating the negotiations. We find that who...
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