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. -- buyer ; supplier … determine the number of trading partners. We show that when the supplier is able to determine the number of trading partners …

In this paper, we investigate the damage to real-sector investment spending and corporate financing activities … triggered by the failure of three major investment banks during the 2007-09 financial crisis. We find that firms characterized … by pre-crisis corporate investment banking relationships with troubled investment banks exhibit significantly lower post …

investment and production. Also, we find that though collaboration in capacity investment is bene cial, collaboration in … intense, demand is more variable and cost of investment is higher …

theoretical predictions at the aggregate level. A positive correlation is found between the investment stage decisions and …

award the entire production to a single supplier. We examine the effect of using multiple suppliers on investment incentives …This paper studies procurement contracts where a buyer can either divide full production among multiple suppliers or …. In a framework of generalized second-price auctions with pre-auction investment, we show that the optimality of split …