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Regulating a Multi-Utility Firm
Calzolari, Giacomo; Scarpa, Carlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We study the regulation of a utility firm which is active in a competitive unregulated sector as well. If the firm jointly operates its activities in the two markets, it enjoys economies of scope, whose size is the firm’s private information and is unknown to the regulator and the rival firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124135
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On Regulation and Competition: Pros and Cons of a Diversified Monopolist
Scarpa, Carlo; Calzolari, Giacomo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
We study the regulation of a firm which supplies a regulated service while also operating in a competitive, unregulated sector. If the firm conducts its activities in the two markets jointly, it enjoys economies of scope whose size is the firm’s private information, unknown either to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008048
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Asymmetric Information and Global Sourcing
Huang, Shin Chen; Lu, Chia Hui - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2009
outsourcing, can serve as a means to overcome or mitigate the problem of information asymmetry. We study the conditions under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256260
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Performance Pay, Sorting, and Outsourcing
Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Henneberger, Fred; Ziegler, Alexandre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variability of compensation are higher at these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703403
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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using … the provision of public input goods in response to international outsourcing, and (ii) whether international outsourcing … justifies policy cooperation. If the public input good is substitutable for (complementary with) outsourcing in terms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497012
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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009
This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using … the provision of public input goods in response to international outsourcing, and (ii) whether international outsourcing … justifies policy cooperation. If the public input good is substitutable for (complementary with) outsourcing in terms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480546
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Asymmetric Information and Global Sourcing
Huang, Shin-Chen; Lu, Chia-Hui - Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems, … - 2009
outsourcing, can serve as a means to overcome or mitigate the problem of information asymmetry. We study the conditions under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998250
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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2009
This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using … the provision of public input goods in response to international outsourcing, and (ii) whether international outsourcing … justifies policy cooperation. If the public input good is substitutable for (complementary with) outsourcing in terms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583713
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An Empirical Study of Online Software Outsourcing: Signals under Different Contract Regimes
Lin, Mingfeng; Viswanathan, Siva; Agarwal, Ritu - NET Institute - 2010
reputation, certification, and language characteristics on the chances of winning outsourcing contracts. Using a comprehensive … dataset from an online outsourcing marketplace, we model how buyers choose among bidding vendors, and how the effects of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672213
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Coordination Mechanisms in Decentralized Serial Inventory Systems with Batch Ordering
Shang, Kevin H.; Song, Jing-Sheng; Zipkin, Paul H. - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 4, pp. 685-695
This paper studies a periodic-review, serial supply chain in which materials are ordered and shipped according to (R,nQ) policies. Three information scenarios are considered, depending on the level of information available: echelon, local, and quasilocal. In the echelon scenario, each stage can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009208993