It is a popular practice for firms to acquire a block share of their manufacturers' ownership. This paper studies the economic impacts of such partial vertical ownership (PVO) in the presence of downstream market competition. Prior studies of vertical integration suggest that firms benefit from...

We study the dynamics in a partnership between a university and a developing region. We examine how the university achieves its goals to improve and advertise its offerings while recruiting a cohort of students from the developing region, and maintaining a sustainable relationship with the...