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Globalization and vertical structure : an empirical investigation ; conference paper
Bühler, Stefan; Burghardt, Dirk - 2014
This paper studies the effect of trade facilitation on vertical firm structure using plant-level data from Switzerland. Based on the Business Census and the Input-Output table, we first calculate a binary measure of vertical integration for all plants registered in Switzerland. We then estimate...
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Incomplete Contracts, Market Competition and Investment Decisions
Nicita, Antonio - 2000
assume exogenous outside options--might be reversed. First, according to the degree of ex-post market competition induced by …'s post-contractual opportunism. The resulting complex institutional context, coined as cross competition, provides an …' rigidity so as to transform multilateral market cross competition into a network of bilateral cross competition relationships …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014164052
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Cournot Competition Between Teams : an Experimental Study
Raab, Philippe; Schipper, Burkhard C. - 2007
In the economic literature on market competition, firms are often modelled as individual decision makers and the … competition. Nevertheless, there are models of team-organization such that team-firms and individual firms are behaviorally … equivalent. This provides a theoretical foundation for the unitary player assumption in Cournot competition. We show that this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029080
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Cournot Competition between Teams: An Experimental Study
Schipper, Burkhard C.; Raab, Philippe - 2004
In the economic literature on market competition, firms are often modeled as single decision makers and the internal … can not generally expect that the behavior of teams is equivalent to the behavior of individuals in Cournot competition … theoretical foundation for the unitary player assumption in Cournot competition. We show that this assumption is robust in …
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Delegation and Team Selection in Organizations : An Experimental Study
Hamman, John - 2018
We model a managerial decision environment in which a manager both determines the skill heterogeneity of her workers and determines whether to retain or delegate the ability to allocate tasks. The manager prefers delegating when uncertainty is sufficiently high relative to the incentive conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924939
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Institutions and Contracts : Franchising
Deffains, Bruno; Saussier, Stéphane; Pfister, Etienne; … - 2005
This paper investigates a new dataset of franchise networks in nine countries in order to assess whether and to what extent do institutions influence the practice of franchising. Our regressions relate the structure of franchise networks (the rate of franchised units as opposed to corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061757
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Vertical Foreclosure in Experimental Markets
Martin, Stephen; Normann, Hans-Theo; Snyder, Christopher M. - 2001
We report the results of experiments designed to test recent theories of vertical foreclosure. Consistent with the theory, the upstream firm has more difficulty commiting to supply the monopoly quantity in treatments with non-integration and secret contracts than in either treatments with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146973
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Vertical Foreclosure in Experimental Markets
Martin, Stephen; Normann, Hans-Theo; Snyder, Christopher M. - 2002
We report the results of experiments designed to test recent theories of vertical foreclosure. Consistent with the theory, vertical integration improves the upstream firm's ability to commit to restricting output to the monopoly level, as does the use of public contracts. Public contracts are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014126754
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Internal conflict, market uniformity, and transparency in price competition between teams
Kurschilgen, Michael; Morell, Alexander; Weisel, Ori - 2016
-pay duopolies, but places private-pay teams at a competitive disadvantage in mixed duopolies. Competition is softened by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580502
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Internal conflict, market uniformity, and transparency in price competition between teams
Kurschilgen, Michael; Morell, Alexander; Weisel, Ori - 2016
-pay duopolies, but places private-pay teams at a competitive disadvantage in mixed duopolies. Competition is softened by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011569085