Commitment im Sinne von Selbstbindung an wettbewerbsstrategische Entscheidungen ist eine unerläßliche Voraussetzung für die Erlangung nachhaltiger Wettbewerbsvorteile. Nur die Bindung an spezifische, weder imitier- noch handelbare Ressourcen eröffnet einer Unternehmung die Chance,...

This paper discusses the fundamental underpinnings and some implications of transaction cost regulation (TCR), a framework to analyze the interaction between governments and investors fundamentally, but not exclusively, in utility industries. TCR sees regulation as the governance structure of...

We provide a general framework for the study of cascade effects created by interconnections between sectors, firms or financial institutions. Focusing on a multi sector economy linked through a supply network, we show how structural properties of the supply network determine both whether...

We document how a plant-specific shock to investment opportunities at one plant of a firm ("treated plant") spills over to other plants of the same firm--but only if the firm is financially constrained. While the shock triggers an increase in investment and employment at the treated plant, this...