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Polluters and abaters
Nimubona, Alain-Désiré; Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard - 2010
To comply with laws, regulations and social demands, polluting firms increasingly purchase the needed means from specialized suppliers. This paper analyzes this relatively recent phenomenon. We show how environmental regulation, the size of the output market, the elasticity of demand for...
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Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Griffith, Rachel; … - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
relationship between technology intensity and vertical integration from a simple model with nancial imperfections andincomplete … consistent with theory, we find that the technology intensities of downstream (producer) and upstream(supplier) industries have … with alternative measures of technology intensity, with alternative estimation strategies, and with or without controlling …
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Strategic outsourcing revisited
Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Haucap, Justus (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper analyzes a sequential game where firms decide about outsourcing the production of a non-specific input good to an imperfectly competitive input market. We apply the taxonomy of business strategies introduced by Fudenberg and Tirole (1984) to characterize the different equilibria. We...
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Business groups as hierarchies of firms : determinants of vertical integration and performance
Altomonte, Carlo; Rungi, Armando - 2013
We explore the nature of Business Groups, that is network-like forms of hierarchical organization between legally autonomous firms spanning both within and across national borders. Exploiting a unique dataset of 270,474 headquarters controlling more than 1,500,000 (domestic and foreign)...
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Trade and investment barriers affecting international production networks in India
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh Kumar - 2014
investment in manufacturing. It examines in particular the role played by logistics infrastructure and processes in the selection … by investors of particular locations for investment in manufacturing. The paper also lists out other shortcomings in the … domestic investment environment that have made India less attractive for foreign as well as domestic investors in comparison …
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Optimal information transmission in organizations : search and congestion
Arenas, Àlex; Cabrales, Antonio; Díaz-Guilera, Albert; … - 2004
We propose a stylized model of a problem-solving organization whose internal communication structure is given by a fixed network. Problems arrive randomly anywhere in this network and must find their way to their respective specialized solvers by relying on local information alone. The...
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Do investments in specialized knowledge lead to composite good industries?
Soubeyran, Antoine; Stahn, Hubert - 2002
There are more and more industries in which firms are specialized in the production of a component of the final good. This is especially true in high-tech industries. The basic question is why don't these firms merge? We paradoxically show that industries which are typical candidates for...
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Vertical integration and investor protection in developing countries
Macchiavello, Rocco - 2009
The industrial organization of developing countries is characterized by the pervasive use of subcontracting arrangements among small, financially constrained firms. This paper asks whether vertical integration relaxes those financial constraints. It shows that vertical integration trades off the...
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Intimidating competitors : endogenous vertical integration and downstream investment in successive oligopoly
Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2004 - July 2004, revised July 2005
We examine the interplay of endogenous vertical integration and costreducing downstream investment in successive …, we establish the following main results: First, vertical integration increases own investment and decreases competitor … investment (intimidation effect). Second, asymmetric equilibria typically involve integrated firms that invest more into …
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Asymmetric vertical integration
Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2004 - Revised version
We examine vertical backward integration in a reducedform model of successive oligopolies. Our key findings are: (i) There may be asymmetric equilibria where some firms integrate and others remain separated, even if firms are symmetric initially; (ii) Efficient firms are more likely to integrate...
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