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From outsourcing to productivity, passing through training : microeconometric evidence from Italy
Antonietti, Roberto - 2014
The aim of this paper is to provide firm-level evidence on the short-run link between outsourcing and labor … find a positive effect on productivity from outsourcing only if firms provide training for the workforce. This indirect … impact on productivity is independent of the type of activity outsourced and is bigger in the case of service outsourcing …
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The evolution of owner-entrepreneurs' taxation : five tax regimes over a 160-year period
Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael; … - 2022
The institutional literature suggests that long-term tax incentives are crucial for entrepreneurs, but studies on this topic are hampered by theoretical and empirical problems related to how to define and measure entrepreneurial income. We resolve these problems by drawing on a theoretical...
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Trade and investment barriers affecting international production networks in India
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh Kumar - 2014
This paper analyses the reasons behind India lagging behind East and South East Asian economies in participating in international production networks, on which growth in manufacturing has become increasingly dependent in the contemporary world. Since multinational firms are the main coordinating...
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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 … Tirole (1984) to characterize the different equilibria. We find that outsourcing generally softens competition in the final … product market. If firms anticipate the impact of their outsourcing decisions on input prices, there may be equilibria where …
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Optimal Management of Evolving Hierarchies
Jens Leth, Hougaard; Juan D., Moreno-Ternero; Lars … - 2018
We study the optimal management of evolving hierarchies, which abound in real-life phenomena. An initiator invests into finding a subordinate, who will bring revenues to the joint venture and who will invest herself into finding another subordinate, and so on. The higher the individual...
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Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Griffith, Rachel; … - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
This paper investigates the determinants of vertical integration. We first derive a number of predictions regarding the relationship between technology intensity and vertical integration from a simple model with nancial imperfections andincomplete contracts. Then, we investigate these...
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Input production joint venture
Rossini, Gianpaolo; Vergari, Cecilia - 2009
In many industries it is quite common to observe firms delegating the production of essential inputs to independent ventures jointly established with competing rivals. The diffusion of this arrangement and the favourable stance of competition authorities call for the assessment of the social and...
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Intellectual property and biodiversity : when and where are property rights important?
Sarr, Mare; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2011
An important issue in the life sciences industries concerns the nature of the incentive mechanism that should govern the production of innovation within this R&D sector. We look at the specific problem of coordinating the supply of inputs across very different agents - North and South - that...
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Polluters and abaters
Nimubona, Alain-Désiré; Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard - 2010
abatement outsourcing are highlighted, qualifications and refinements of the theory of vertical integration are then proposed …, and some consequences for environmental policy are briefly discussed. -- Eco-industry ; Make-or-buy Decision ; Outsourcing …
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Public subsidies and cooperation in research and development : evidence from the lab
Acconcia, Antonio; Beraldo, Sergio; Capuano, Carlo; … - 2022
We implement an experimental design based on a duopoly game in which subjects choose whether to cooperate in Research and Development (R&D) activities. We first conduct six experimental markets that differ in both the levels of knowledge spillovers and the intensity of competition. Consistently...
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