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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 …
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Endogenous public information and welfare
Vives, Xavier - 2011
This paper performs a welfare analysis of economies with private information when public information is endogenously generated and agents can condition on noisy public statistics in the rational expectations tradition. We find that equilibrium is not (restricted) efficient even when feasible...
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Quality vs. quantity in information transmission : theory and experimental evidence
Lafky, Jonathan; Wilson, Alistair J. - 2015
Information sharing has become increasingly important in helping consumers make better, more informed choices over competing products. Our project uses a novel theoretical framework and laboratory experiments to analyze three simple, commonly used incentive schemes against an unincentivized...
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Platform competition and information sharing
Petropoulos, Georgios; Martens, Bertin; Parker, Geoffrey; … - 2023
Digital platforms, empowered by artificial intelligence algorithms, facilitate efficient interactions between consumers and merchants that allow the collection of profiling information which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives, however, lead to information asymmetries resulting in...
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Intellectual property rights, product complexity, and the organization of multinational firms
Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - 2013
down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technology-related-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …
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Privatization in Denmark, 1980-2002
Christoffersen, Henrik; Paldam, Martin - 2004
privatization activity appears to be outsourcing. …
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How distortive are turnover taxes? : evidence from replacing turnover tax with VAT
Xing, Jing; Bilicka, Katarzyna; Hou, Xipei - 2022
primarily driven by outsourcing from downstream manufacturing _rms. We document that smaller and less innovative manufacturing …
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Structural transformation of occupation employment
Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2021
novelty of our approach is that it categorizes labor by occupations, which are invariant to outsourcing. We find that the …
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Vertical licensing, input pricing, and entry
Bakaouka, Elpiniki; Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2017
We explore the incentives of a vertically integrated incumbent firm to license the production technology of its core input to an external firm, transforming the licensee into its input supplier. We find that the incumbent opts for licensing even when licensing also transforms the licensee into...
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Intellectual property rights, multinational firms and technology transfers
Biancini, Sara; Bombarda, Pamela - 2017
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protect firms from imitation and are considered crucial to promote innovation and technological diffusion. This paper examines the impact of IPR on import sourcing decisions of multinationals. We consider a framework in which firms offshore production of an...
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