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Supplier Encroachment with Mutual Outsourcing
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Serfes, Konstantinos - 2023
We examine the incentives and implications of supplier encroachment, when final good produc-tion requires the use of 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....
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Pricing and Supply Chain Transparency to Conscientious Consumers
Bertini, Marco; Buehler, Stefan; Halbheer, Daniel - 2021
This paper studies how a firm should make pricing and transparency decisions when consumers care about supply chain characteristics. We first show how preferences that account for price and unit cost constrain the firm’s pricing power and profit. Surprisingly, we find that the firm may be...
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Asymmetric Yardstick Competition : Traditional Procurement Versus Public-Private Partnerships
Liddo, Giuseppe Di - 2019
traditional procurement (TP) and public-private partnership (PPP). We show that a mixed regime, in which TP is used in one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892139
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Competitive Procurement with Ex Post Moral Hazard
Chakraborty, Indranil; Khalil, Fahad; Lawarree, Jacques - 2021
Unlike standard auctions, we show that competitive procurement may optimally limit competition or use inefficient … allocation rules that award the project to a less efficient firm with positive probability. Procurement projects often involve ex … post moral hazard after the competitive process is over. A procurement mechanism must combine an incentive scheme with the …
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A Simple Model of Buyer-Seller Networks in International Trade
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Sauré, Philip U. - 2021
The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network. We propose a simplistic re-interpretation of the classical Krugman (1980) model that accounts for surprisingly many of the empirical regularities. This re-interpretation relies...
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On the Evolution of Market Institutions : The Platform Design Paradox
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Walzl, Markus - 2021
We study competition among market designers who create new trading platforms, when boundedly rational traders learn to select among them. We ask whether efficient platforms, leading to market - clearing trading outcomes, will dominate the market in the long run. If several market designers are...
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Negative Intra-Group Externalities in Two-Sided Markets
Belleflamme, Paul; Toulemonde, Eric - 2021
Two types of agents interact on a pre-existing free platform. Agents value positively the presence of agents of the other type but may value negatively the presence of agents of their own type. We ask whether a new platform can find fees and subsidies so as to divert agents from the existing...
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Dynamic Ic and Dynamic Programming
Kwon, Suehyun - 2019
This paper develops a dynamic programming method when the one-stage deviation principle in the sense of mechanism design literature doesn’t hold. The commonly used dynamic programming method is valid only if the one-stage deviation principle in the sense of mechanism design literature is...
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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 …
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Trade Protection Along Supply Chains
Bown, Chad P.; Conconi, Paola; Erbahar, Aksel; … - 2021
During the last decades, the United States has applied increasingly high trade protection against China. We combine detailed information on US antidumping (AD) duties — the most widely used trade barrier — with US input-output data to study the effects of trade protection along supply...
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