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Internal Versus External Capital Markets
Gertner, Robert H. - 2010
This paper presents a framework for analyzing the costs and benefits of internal vs. external capital allocation. We focus primarily on comparing an internal capital market to bank lending. While both represent centralized forms of financing, in the former case the financing is owner-provided,...
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The Dark Side of Internal Capital Markets : Divisional Rent-Seeking and Inefficient Investment
Scharfstein, David S. - 2008
We develop a model that shows how rent-seeking behavior on the part of division managers can subvert the workings of an internal capital market. In an effort to stop rent-seeking, corporate headquarters will be effectively forced into paying bribes to some division managers. And because...
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Business Groups and Trade in East Asia : Part 1, Networked Equilibria
Feenstra, Robert C.; Huang, Deng-Shing; Hamilton, Gary G. - 2021
We propose an economic model of business groups that allows for the cooperative behavior of groups of firms, where the number and size of each group is determined endogenously. In this framework, more than one configuration of groups can arise in equilibrium: several different types of business...
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Customer Capital
Gourio, Francois - 2011
Firms spend substantial resources on marketing and selling. Interpreting this as evidence of frictions in product …
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Market Selection
Kogan, Leonid - 2010
The hypothesis that financial markets punish traders who make relatively inaccurate forecasts and eventually eliminate the effect of their beliefs on prices is of fundamental importance to the standard modeling paradigm in asset pricing. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for...
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Market Penetration Costs and the New Consumers Margin in International Trade
Arkolakis, Costas - 2008
I develop a new theory of marketing costs and introduce it into a model of trade with product differentiation and firm …
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Production Chains
Levine, David K. - 2010
More advanced technologies demand higher degrees of specialization - and longer chains of production connecting raw inputs to final outputs. Longer production chains are subject to a "weakest link" effect: they are more fragile and more prone to failure. Optimal chain length is determined by the...
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Tracing Value-Added and Double Counting in Gross Exports
Koopman, Robert - 2012
This paper proposes a framework for gross exports accounting that breaks up a country's gross exports into various value-added components by source and additional double counted terms. By identifying which parts of the official trade data are double counted and the sources of the double...
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The Need for (Long) Chains in Kidney Exchange
Ashlagi, Itai - 2012
It has been previously shown that for sufficiently large pools of patient-donor pairs, (almost) efficient kidney exchange can be achieved by using at most 3-way cycles, i.e. by using cycles among no more than 3 patient-donor pairs. However, as kidney exchange has grown in practice, cycles among...
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Organizing the Global Value Chain
Antras, Pol - 2012
be taken to the data with international trade statistics. Combining data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Related Party … Trade database and estimates of U.S. import demand elasticities from Broda and Weinstein (2006), we find empirical evidence … industry in the value chain, which we construct using U.S. Input-Output Tables …
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