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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 … partners is small. The results may be consistent with the formation of Japanese buyer-supplier relations. … determine the number of trading partners. We show that when the supplier is able to determine the number of trading partners …
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Product innovation by supplying in domestic and foreign markets
Bratti, Massimiliano; Felice, Giulia - 2018
This paper uses European firm-level survey data to provide some robust empirical evidence that suppliers engaged in production to order (PTO) for foreign firms are more likely to introduce product innovations than those engaged in PTO for domestic firms, even when differences in size, R&D and...
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Strategic Mismatches in Competing Teams
Kräkel, Matthias - 1999
This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage (e.g. harming other competitors). In addition, the...
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Sequencing bilateral negotiations with externalities
Münster, Johannes; Reisinger, Markus - 2021
We show that financial advisors recommend more costly products to female clients, based on minutes from about 27,000 real-world advisory meetings and client portfolio data. Funds recommended to women have higher expense ratios controlling for risk, and women less often receive rebates on upfront...
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Testing the Multiproduct Hypothesis on Norwegian Aluminium Industry Plants
Larsson, Jan - 2003
Although most production activities involve multiple outputs, econometric models of production or cost functions normally involve only one single homogeneous output. The aim of this paper is to test the hypothesis that a multiproduct specification is superior to a model with a single homogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968120
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Network-based analyses of Hungarian cash supply
Bódi-Schubert, Anikó; Ábrahám, Zsolt; Lajkó, Erika - 2012
This paper focuses on analyzing the cash supply network, in which the central bank - as an institutional member - acts as a key influencing node/party. By analyzing the case study example of the Hungarian cash supply, the paper introduces the different kinds of special network patterns that can...
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Retailer's product line choice with manufacturer's multichannel marketing
Pan, Cong - 2016
This paper studies how a retailer decides the length of product line in a vertically related industry. We study a market with two product varieties. Each retailer decides the number of varieties it procures from an upstream manufacturer. The manufacturer may open an online store and encroach on...
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Supplier enchroachment and consumer welfare: Upstream firm's opportunism and multichannel distribution
Pan, Cong - 2018
I revisit supplier encroachment under the framework of a two-part tariff contract. When a monopoly manufacturer …
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A manufacturer's incentive to open its direct channel and its impact on welfare
Matsushimay, Noriaki; Mizunoz, Tomomichi; Pan, Cong - 2018
We consider a bilateral monopoly in which a manufacturer can open its direct channel that is less efficient than the existing retailer. We find the following results. The manufacturer opens its direct channel if its bargaining power over the existing retailer is weak. Opening the direct channel...
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Servitization as a Productive Strategy of a Firm – Evidence from the Forest-Based Industries
Viitamo, Esa - 2013
A central aspect of the industrial evolution in the advanced economies is the phenomenon called servitization. In general, the term servitization or product-service transition is used to highlight the change, where the tangible offering of a manufacturing firm is augmented with intangible...
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