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Outsourcing versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2002

We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …

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Vertical FDI versus Outsourcing: The Role of Host Country Human Capital

Grover, Arti - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2009

likelihood of outsourcing is higher in the Antràs model, vertical FDI is a possibility when the human capital gap between the … model, international outsourcing is also possible, especially when the human capital gap between the home and the host …

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Outsourcing in a Global Economy

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2002

We study the determinants of the location of sub-contracted activity in a general equilibrium model of outsourcing and … trade. We model outsourcing as an activity that requires search for a partner and relationship-specific investments that are … governed by incomplete contracts. The extent of international outsourcing depends inter alia on the thickness of the domestic …

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Outsourcing versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2002

We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005435963

Unbundling, regulation and pricing: Evidence from electricity distribution

Heim, Sven; Krieger, Bastian; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2018

Unbundling of vertically integrated utilities has become an integral element in the regulation of network industries and has been implemented in many jurisdictions. The idea of separating the network, as the natural monopoly, from downstream retailing, which may be exposed to competition, is...

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Vertical Integration and Technology Adoption

Voudon, Benoit - 2019

This paper examines vertical integration incentives in the presence of a cost-reducing technology. Combining the technology adoption and vertical merger literatures in a simple duopoly model, I show that asymmetric integration can occur even in a purely symmetric set-up, without synergies or...

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Vertical Integration and Market Power in Electricity Markets

Hogan, Seamus - 2019

Vertical separation of generation from electricity retailing has often been required as a condition of electricity market liberalisation. A well-developed and liquid contracts market is similarly suggested as necessary to manage the resulting wholesale market risks, which risks are further...

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Vertical Contracts and Entry

Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2020

We study the implications of different contractual forms in a market with an incumbent upstream monopolist and free downstream entry. We show that traditional conclusions regarding the desirability of linear contracts radically change when entry in the downstream market is endogenous rather than...

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Dynamic Collusion, Vertical Competition, and Systematic Risk

She, Guoman; Wei, K.C. John; You, Haifeng - 2022

Building on dynamic collusion theories, we predict that firms with less concentrated upstream or downstream industries have lower systematic risk because their supply chain partners tend to compete more aggressively during recessions, absorbing more of the adverse effect of aggregate shocks....

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The competitive impact of hypermarket retailers on gasoline prices

Zimmerman, Paul R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Hypermarkets are large retail suppliers of general merchandise or grocery items that also sell gasoline, often at very low margins. Using panel data for 1998-2002, this paper estimates the impact of hypermarkets on average state-level retail gasoline prices. The empirical results suggest a...

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