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Digging Deep to Compete : Vertical Integration, Product Market Competition and Prices

McGowan, Danny - 2015

This paper tests whether product market competition affects vertical integration through the price channel. The … variation in competition within the coal mining industry. We document a 28% reduction in the incidence of vertical integration … among the treatment group following exposure to more product market competition. Consistent with recent organizational …

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Vertical Integration to Avoid Contracting with Potential Competitors : Evidence from Bankers’ Banks

Brickley, James A. - 2018

We examine a vertical integration decision within the commercial banking industry. During the last quarter of the 20th century, some community banks reduced their traditional reliance on correspondent banks for upstream products and services by joining bankers' banks, a form of business...

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Control Rights, Network Structure and Vertical Integration : Evidence from Regional Airlines

Forbes, Silke Januszewski; Lederman, Mara - 2005

incomplete contracts. Our setting is the U.S regional airline industry. Regional airlines operate flights for major carriers …

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Vertical Governance between Airlines and Airports - A Transaction Cost Analysis

Fuhr, Johannes; Beckers, Thorsten - 2009

propositions state that hub airlines and hub airports seek specialized governance structures, while value-based carriers and base … airports enter into long-term contracts supported by complementary safeguards. These privately crafted governance modes …

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Organizational decisions in multistage production processes : conference paper

Nowak, Verena Nina - 2014 - Very preliminary

To explain organizational decisions in multistage production processes we assume a production process with one producer and two suppliers of which one is the firm's direct supplier and the other one is the supplier of the supplier. The firm decides only on the organizational form of her direct...

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Revealing incentives for vertical integration in the presence of glocal policies

Giannoccolo, Pierpaolo; Vergari, Cecilia - 2015

Local and regional policy makers are acquiring an increasingly active role in affecting firms' specialization decisions that in turn influence firms' vertical organization. We analyse the relation between vertical integration incentives and trade liberalization in the presence of glocal...

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Production Technology, Information Technology, and Vertical Integration under Asymmetric Information

Atallah, Gamal - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002

The paper addresses the effect of technological progress on the frontiers of the firm, building on transaction cost theory and agency theory. The model incorporates four types of costs: production, coordination, management, and transaction costs. The market has lower production costs, but higher...

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Intellectual property rights and efficient firm organization

Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

I provide a justification of intellectual property rights as a source of static efficiency gains in manufacturing, rather than dynamic benefits from greater innovation. I develop a property-rights model of a supply relationship with two dimensions of non-contractible investment. In equilibrium,...

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Institution-driven comparative advantage and organizational choice

Ferguson, Shon; Formai, Sara - In: Journal of International Economics 90 (2013) 1, pp. 193-200

The theory of the firm suggests that firms can respond to poor contract enforcement by vertically integrating their production process. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether firms' integration opportunities affect the way contract enforcement institutions determine international trade...

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Intellectual Property Rights and Efficient Firm Organization

Ponzetto, Giacomo AM - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

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