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Revenue Sharing and Control Rights in Team Production: Theories and Evidence from Joint Ventures.*

Bai, Chong-En; Tao, Zhigang; Wu, Changqi - 2003

Grossman-Hart-Moore Property Rights Theory and the Transaction Cost Theory of the firm, and emphasizes the impact of … control arrangements o?ers strong support to our Property-Rights-Theory motivated model with self investment but rejects that … with cooperative investment. The Transaction-Cost-Theory motivated model leaves some important empirical findings …

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Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?

Kim, E. Han - 2006

We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect...

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Coordination Costs, Organization Structure and Firm Growth.

Zhou, Yue Maggie - 2008

This dissertation views firms as systems of interdependent activities and investigates the role of coordination costs in setting limits to firms’ growth strategies and organization structure. It contains three interrelated studies. Study I examines the impact of coordination costs on firms’...

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One Player Games versus Two Player Games: Comparing Agribusiness Cooperatives with Investor-Owned Business Models

Parker, Frederick - 2011

generate dead weight loss whenmaximizing producer surpluses as expected under prevailing microeconomic theory. Theuse of …

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The Effect of Competition on Trade Patterns: Evidence from the Collapse of International Cartels

Levenstein, Margaret C. - 2010

How do changes in competitive intensity affect trade patterns? In this paper, we exploit a quasi-natural experiment associated with increased anti-trust enforcement activity over the last two decades. A large number of international markets underwent a change in competitive intensity as they...

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What happens when firms patent? New evidence from US economic census data

Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - 2007

In this study, we present novel statistics on the patenting in US manufacturing and new evidence on the question of what happens when firms patent. We do so by creating a comprehensive firm-patent matched dataset that links the NBER patent data (covering the universe of patents) to firm data...

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Capital Liquidity, Productivity Dispersion and Market Structure

Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - 2007

We propose an industry-level index of capital liquidity -- defined as the share of used capital in aggregate industry capital expenditure -- that relates (inversely) to sunkenness of capital investment. We then test the effect of capital liquidity on the dispersion and mean of industry...

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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies

Svejnar, Jan - 2007

We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002- 2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). Providing evidence from a...

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Greenwash: Corporate Environmental Disclosure under Threat of Audit

Lyon, Thomas P. - 2006

We develop an economic model of "greenwash," in which a firm strategically discloses environmental information and a non-governmental organization (NGO) may audit and penalize the firm for failing to fully disclose its environmental impacts. We identify conditions under which NGO punishment of...

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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries

Svejnar, Jan - 2007

We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy...

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