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Technology portfolio and market value
Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - 2008
This paper discusses the impact of a firm's technology portfolio on its market value. Two concepts are used to characterize a firm's portfolio: the number of technological fields and the degree of relatedness within the portfolio characterized by the amount of joint occurrences of patents in...
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Estimating Economies of Scale and Scope with Flexible Technology
Triebs, Thomas; Saal, David S.; Arocena, Pablo; … - 2012
Economies of scale and scope are typically modelled and estimated using cost functions that are common to all firms in an industry irrespective of whether they specialize in a single output or produce multiple outputs. We suggest an alternative flexible technology model that does not make this...
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The Final Frontier: The Integration of Banking and Commerce. Part 1: The Likely Outcome of Eliminating the Barrier
Wall, Larry D.; Reichert, Alan K.; Liang, Hsin-yu - In: Economic Review 93 (2008)
The policy debate on whether to strengthen or to remove the legal barriers between banking and commerce has paid little attention to what the practical effects of removing the barriers would be. To help answer this question, this article, the first part of a two-part study, provides an overview...
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Russischer Agrarsektor im Aufschwung? Eine Analyse der technischen und Skaleneffizienz der Agrarunternehmen
Stange, Henriette; Lissitsa, Alexej - 2003
Spezialisierung auf die Effizienz untersucht. Um die Auswirkungen der Reformen und die Veränderungen in den Agrarunternehmen zu … der durchschnittlichen Effizienz im Vergleich von 1993 zu 2000. Bei der Betrachtung der Einflussfaktoren auf die … technische Effizienz hat die Wahl der Rechtsform keinen Einfluss. Hingegen beeinflussen Betriebsgröße und Spezialisierung die …
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Quality of Service, Efficiency, and Scale in Network Industries: An Analysis of European Electricity Distribution
Growitsch, Christian; Jamasb, Tooraj; Pollitt, Michael G. - 2005
addressed in regulatory schemes. However, this important aspect is generally not reflected in efficiency analysis of these … industries. In this paper we present an efficiency analysis of electricity distribution networks using a sample of about 500 …-output translog input distance function models to estimate cost and scale efficiency with and without incorporating quality of service …
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Potential gains from mergers in local public transport: an efficiency analysis applied to Germany
Walter, Matthias; Cullmann, Astrid - 2008
that operate partially on a joint tram network. Merger gains are then decomposed into individual technical efficiency …
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The aggregate Le Chatelier Samuelson principle with Cournot competition
Koebel, Bertrand M.; Laisney, François - 2010
This paper studies the aggregate substitution and expansion effects triggered by changes in input prices, in a context where firms supply a homogenous commodity and compete in quantities à la Cournot. We derive a sufficient condition for the existence of a Cournot equilibrium and show that this...
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Direktinvestitionen, Fusionen und Strukturwandel
Klodt, Henning - 2001
Foreign direct investment - the major driving force of globalization - is increasingly dominated by merger and …
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What factors determine the number of trading partners?
Matsushima, Noriaki; Shinohara, Ryusuke - 2011
The purpose of the paper is to provide a simple model explaining buyer-supplier relationships and show what factors determine the number of trading partners. We show that when the supplier is able to determine the number of trading partners, the optimal number is small if the supplier's...
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The competitive effects of firm exit: Evidence from the US airline industry
Hüschelrath, Kai; Müller, Kathrin - 2012
larger price increases than mergerrelated exits. Within the merger category, our analysis reveals significant price increases … on all affected routes immediately after the exit events. In the medium and long-run, however, realized merger …
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