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How do market structures affect decisions on vertical integration

Matsushima, Noriaki; Mizuno, Tomomichi - 2010

We provide a simple model to investigate decisions on vertical integration/separation. The key feature of this model is that more than one input is required for the final products of the local downstream monopolists. Depending on their cost structure, downstream firms' decisions on vertical...

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Process and Product Innovation by a Multiproduct Monopolist: A Dynamic Approach

Lambertini, Luca; Mantovani, Andrea - 2005

We model the optimal behaviour of a multiproduct monopolist investing both in process and in product innovation in a … dynamic setting. Product innovation reduces the degree of substitutability between any two varieties. First, we find that R …

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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - 2009

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...

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On competition and the strategic management of intellectual property in oligopoly

Jansen, Jos - 2009

An innovative firm chooses strategically whether to patent its process innovation or rely on secrecy. By doing so, the … firm manages its rival's beliefs about the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market …

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Exports, product differentiation and knowledge spillovers

León-Ledesma, Miguel - 2002

Empirical studies on aggregate export behaviour have recently emphasised the role played by innovation as the main … force driving product differentiation and competitiveness for developed countries. These studies treat foreign innovation as … a variable that affects negatively national export shares. We incorporate the impact of foreign innovation in a standard …

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Ein Modell der Netzwerkeffekte in der Software-Industrie

Gröhn, Andreas - 1997

Computerbesitzer kombinieren Komplementärguter zu einem Computersystem. Mit dem Computersystem möchten sie Daten mit anderen Nachfragern und zwischen verschiedenen Applikationen austauschen. Aus diesen Interdependenzen ergeben sich drei verschiedene Netzwerkeffekte, die im Rahmen eines...

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Strategic Vertical Separation

Sloev, Igor - 2009

The paper explores incentives for strategic vertical separation of firms in a framework of a simple duopoly model. Each firm chooses either to be a retailer of its own good (vertical integration) or to sell its good through an independent exclusive retailer (vertical separation). In the latter...

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How to Auction an Essential Facility When Underhand Integration is Possible

Engel, Eduardo; Fischer, Ronald; Galetovic, Alexander - 2002

Regulating seaports is difficult in general, even more so for the weak regulatory institutions common in developing countries. For this reason some countries have awarded these facilities via Demsetz auctions, to the port operator that bids the lowest cargo-handling fee. A major concern with...

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Strategische Implikationen einer geringen Fertigungstiefe für die Automobilindustrie

Krcal, Hans-Christian - 2007

In the German automobile industry the vertical integration, as an indicator of value added, is on average low. Beyond the argument of relative high labour costs for manufacturing, several specific reasons for the level of vertical integration, linked to the flexibility of business administration...

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Sushi or fish fingers? Seafood diversity, collapsing fish stocks, and multi-species fishery management

Quaas, Martin F.; Requate, Till - 2012

We present a model of a multi-species fishery and show that (i) consumer preferences for seafood diversity may trigger a sequential collapse of fish stocks under open-access fishery, (ii) the stronger the preferences are for diversity the higher is the need for coordinated multi-species...

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