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Supplier Encroachment with Mutual Outsourcing
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Serfes, Konstantinos - 2023
multiple complementary inputs and the entry of a supplier into the final good market gives rise to mutual outsourcing of inputs … between the encroaching supplier and the incumbent. We show that, post encroachment, mutual outsourcing between the competing … mutual outsourcing. Our analysis yields novel managerial, empirical and policy implications …
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Backward Versus Forward Integration of Firms in Global Value Chains
Egger, Peter; Erhardt, Katharina; Masllorens, Gerard - 2021
model of vertical integration in a supplier-producer relationship that is rooted in the property-rights theory to learn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224089
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Vertical Control Change and Platform Organization Under Network Externalities
Padilla, Jorge; Piccolo, Salvatore; Shekhar, Shiva - 2022
In this paper, we examine how the introduction of network externalities impact an open and vertically integrated platform’s post-merger contractual relationship with third-party sellers distributing through its marketplace. Regardless of whether the platform uses linear contracts or two-part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077333
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Unemployment in an interdependent world
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009
We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms. Countries may differ with respect to size, geographical location, and labor market institutions. Contrary to the literature, our single-sector perspective pays special attention...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266008
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Comparative advantage and skill-specific unemployment
Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009
We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment effects of trade liberalization. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266011
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Supplier Encroachment with Mutual Outsourcing
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Serfes, Konstantinos - 2023
multiple complementary inputs and the entry of a supplier into the final good market gives rise to mutual outsourcing of inputs … between the encroaching supplier and the incumbent. We show that, post encroachment, mutual outsourcing between the competing … mutual outsourcing. Our analysis yields novel managerial, empirical and policy implications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377493
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Outsourcing without Cost Advantages
Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2023
both crucial for the emergence of outsourcing. The supplier purposefully avoids industry pro.t maximization to enlarge its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377619
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Exports, foreign direct investment and the costs of corporate taxation
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2007
This paper develops a model of a monopolistically competitive industry with extensive and intensive business investment and shows how these margins respond to changes in average and marginal corporate tax rates. Intensive investment refers to the size of a firm's capital stock. Extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264223
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Merger without cost advantages
Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Mueller, Wieland - 2005
The seminal paper by Salant, Switzer and Reynolds (1983) showed that merger in a standard Cournot framework with linear demand and linear costs is not profitable unless a large majority of the firms are involved in the merger. However, many strategic aspects matter for firm competition such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261187
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Vertical Specialization, International Task Fragmentation, and Convergence
Marjit, Sugata; Oladi, Reza - 2021
In this paper, we construct an elaborate general equilibrium model with a continuum of production fragments for an intermediate good, then embed it in a growth model to address the effects of global production fragmentation, vertical specialization and trade on growth and inequality for a small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314672