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Horizontal and Vertical Firm Networks, Corporate Performance and Product Market Competition
Bischoff, Oliver - 2015
This paper sheds new light on the assessment of firm networks via multiple directorships in terms of corporate firm performance. Using a large sample of European listed firms in the period from 2003 to 2011 and system GMM we find a significant compensation effect on corporate firm performance...
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Vertical Integration and Fuel Diversity in Electricity Generation – a theoretical study in imperfect competition
Fristrup, Peter; Klinge Jacobsen, Henrik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper contains an analysis of stylised natural gas and electricity supply sectors. Power plants operate either on natural gas or on a competing fuel – e.g. oil. The competing fuel is assumed to be traded at world market price whereas natural gas is sold by a national monopoly. The paper...
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Bye to Vertical Integration and Welcome to the Horizontal Integration in the Textile Business
Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Hasan, Syed Akif; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
When it’s about production then association between the machinery and efficiency is gauged. This investigation seeks the matter whether vertical integration (balanced integration) in an organization provides better results and profits. The focused industry was textile with a sample size of 30...
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Measuring trade in value added in the new industrial economy: statistical implications
Escaith, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Vertical integration of production processes at international level and the resulting fragmentation of the value chains increasingly question the relevance of traditional trade indicators. Intermediate productions are increasingly offshored within these global value chains, giving place to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260040
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Schemat arbitrażowy Nasha, a podział zysków w bilateralnym monopolu kopalni węgla brunatnego i elektrowni. Cześć druga – zastosowania w negocjacjach strategicznych i taktycznych...
Jurdziak, Leszek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The application of Nash bargaining solution to profit division in negotiation between opencast lignite mine and power plant has been discussed. Different proposals of status quo point usage and ways of its determination for profit sharing both in strategic and tactical/operational negotiation...
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The Demand for Tailored Goods and the Theory of the Firm
Thiele, Veikko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The transaction cost theory predicts that firms are inclined to vertically integrate transactions in response to the specificity of their required inputs. Yet, reality proves that some firms engage in repeated transactions with external suppliers aimed at procuring highly specific inputs. To...
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‘Make-or-Buy’ in International Oligopoly and the Role of Competitive Pressure
Dermot, Leahy; Catia, Montagna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We study how competitive pressure influences the make-or-buy decision that oligopolistic firms face between producing an intermediate component in-house or purchasing it from a domestic supplier. We model outsourcing as a bilateral relationship in which the supplier undertakes relationship...
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The competitive impact of hypermarket retailers on gasoline prices
Zimmerman, Paul R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Hypermarkets are large retail suppliers of general merchandise or grocery items that also sell gasoline, often at very low margins. Using panel data for 1998-2002, this paper estimates the impact of hypermarkets on average state-level retail gasoline prices. The empirical results suggest a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545948
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Outsourcing and Vertical Integration in a Competitive Industry
Ciliberto, Federico; Panzar, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We develop a partial equilibrium, perfectly competitive framework of a (potentially) vertically integrated industry. There are three types of firms: upstream firms that use primary factors to produce an intermediate; downstream firms that use primary factors and intermediates to produce a final...
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Vertical Integration and Patent Licensing in Upstream and Downstream Markets
Bouguezzi, Fehmi; EL ELJ, Moez - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
a different cost-reducing innovation. The key difference between the present model and models in the existing literature … two firms: the patent holding firm and a non innovative firm. In upstream market, the innovative firm owns an innovation … allowing to reduce the input marginal production cost. In downstream market the innovative firm owns an innovation allowing to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470468