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congestion levels currently experienced at many airports. Several characteristics of aviation markets, however, may make naive … pricing that captures a number of these features. The model in particular reflects (1) that airlines typically have market … power and are engaged in oligopolistic competition at different sub-markets; (2) that part of external travel delays that …
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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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The industrial organization of developing countries is characterized by the pervasive use of subcontracting arrangements among small, financially constrained firms. This paper asks whether vertical integration relaxes those financial constraints. It shows that vertical integration trades off the...
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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 institutions determine international trade patterns. We find...
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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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This paper provides a formal analysis on the investment coordination problem in a vertically separated electricity supply industry, although the analysis may apply also to other network industries. In an electric- ity system, the investment decisions of network and power plants need to be...
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route network expansion of low-cost airlines to identify routes where the probability of future entry increase dramatically … entry occurs. Overall, the main findings suggest that airlines respond to entry threats trading off the benefits of short …
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paper examines the role of market competition for this trend in corporate reorganization. We find that at intermediate … levels of competition the CEO of the corporation decides to have less power inside the firm and to delegate control to lower … when competition is not too tough and not too weak. The model predicts merger waves or waves of outsourcing when countries …
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paper examines the role of market competition for this trend in corporate reorganization. We find that at intermediate … levels of competition the CEO of the corporation decides to have less power inside the firm and to delegate control to lower … when competition is not too tough and not too weak. The model predicts merger waves or waves of outsourcing when countries …
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Recent theoretical contributions provide conflicting predictions about the effects of product market competition on … analyze the relationship between import competition and vertical integration. Exploiting exogenous variation from changes in … India's trade policy, we find that foreign competition, induced by falling output tariffs, increases backward vertical …
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