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The costs of vertical integration are analyzed within a game-theoretic signaling model. It is shown that a company when being vertically integrated with a supplier may well decide to buy certain components from this supplier even at a lower quality than that offered by external sources. When the...
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The costs of vertical integration are analyzed within a game-theoretic signaling model. It is shown that a company when being vertically integrated with a supplier may well decide to buy certain components from this supplier even at a lower quality than that offered by external sources. When the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703228
reforms on equity and efficiency for thecase of Germany... …
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This paper investigates the effects of the takeover of a domestic establishment by foreign owners on the domestic …
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. Second, it examines which individuals from which firms remain with the newly created entity after the takeover. Using a … active in the post-takeover period, with employees of the acquired firm being less likely to remain with the new entity in … the short term after takeover than those of the acquiring firm and with the differences between the two types of firms …
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We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic … of government. With an unbiased competition agency we find that the foreign takeover is more likely to occur the higher …
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Cross sectional evidence shows that foreign firms have a more educated workforce and pay higher wages than domestic firms. These results do not necessarily imply that foreign direct investment translates into higher demand for educated workers or higher wages, however, since foreign investment...
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How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to control for unobserved worker differences, we...
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non-MNEs, and purely domestic firms before foreign takeover. The results, controlling for possible endogeneity of the … horizontal or vertical. We also find robust positive employment growth effects only for exporters, and only if the takeover is …
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We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find...
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