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Vertical Integration and Technology : Theory and Evidence
Acemoglu, Daron - 2004
This paper investigates the determinants of vertical integration using data from the UK manufacturing sector. We find that the relationship between a downstream (producer) industry and an upstream (supplier) industry is more likely to be vertically integrated when the producing industry is more...
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Contracting in the Absence of Specific Investments and Moral Hazard : Understanding Carrier-Driver Relations in U.S. Trucking
Lafontaine, Francine - 2002
provision of marginal incentives, and applies the theory to explain variation in the form of compensation of over-the-road truck … of hauls in a way that is consistent with the theory. By contrast, we find that vehicle ownership, which defines a driver …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469856
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Effects of Product Availability : Experimental Evidence
Conlon, Christopher T. - 2010
Product availability impacts many industries such as transportation, events, and retail, yet little empirical evidence documents the importance of stocking decisions for firm profits, vertical relationships, or consumers. We conduct several experiments, exogenously removing top-selling products...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462151
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Outsourcing when Investments are Specific and Complementary
Lileeva, Alla - 2008
-seller relationship. A theoretical model that allows for varying degrees of investment specificity and for complementarities …---an externality between buyer and supplier investments---guides the analysis. Our main findings are that (i) greater specificity makes … for transactions with low complementarities. High specificity and a low risk of appropriation strengthen the predictions …
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Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms
Rauch, James E. - 2013
Recently collected data show that, within any manufacturing industry, vertically integrated firms tend to have larger, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a weak contracting environment characteristic of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458936
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Does Physician-Hospital Vertical Integration Signal Care-Coordination? Evidence from Mover-Stayer Analyses of Commercially Insured Enrollees
Encinosa, William E.; Dor, Avi; PhuongGiang Nguyen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the impacts of physician-hospital integration on care fragmentation and other measures of care-coordination using a dynamic model of movers and stayers in commercially insured plans. Although recent growth in the share of practicing physicians belonging to these vertical organizations...
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Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition An Analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets
Bushnell, James B. - 2007
This paper examines vertical arrangements in electricity markets. Vertically integrated wholesalers, or those with long-term contracts, have less incentive to raise wholesale prices when retail prices are determined beforehand. For three restructured markets, we simulate prices that define...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465139
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Vertical Networks and US Auto Parts Exports : Is Japan Different?
Head, Keith - 2002
This paper develops a model in which upstream network insiders' conduct relationship specific investment that induces the downstream firm to transact within networks. The scale of destination-country production and part-specific measures of the importance of network relationships and engineering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469548
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United States Steel's Acquisition of the Great Northern Ore Properties : Vertical Foreclosure or Efficient Contractual Governance?
Mullin, Joseph C. - 1996
This paper examines United States Steel's acquisition by long-term lease of the iron ore properties of the Great Northern Railway. This 1906 transaction, which significantly increased U.S. Steel's already substantial ore holdings, has been characterized by contemporary observers and modern...
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The Impact of Vertical Integration on Physician Behavior and Healthcare Delivery : Evidence from Gastroenterology Practices
Saghafian, Soroush; Song, Lina; Newhouse, Joseph P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
US healthcare is undergoing a period of substantial change, with many hospitals vertically integrating with physician practices. Such integration could improve quality by promoting care coordination, but could also worsen it by impacting care delivery. Evidence on how physicians alter their...
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