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Estimating vertical foreclosure in US gasoline supply

Aydemir, Zava (contributor); Bühler, Stefan (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We examine the competitive effects of the vertical integration of gasoline refineries and retailers in the U.S. Adapting the first-order condition approach of static oligopoly games to the analysis of vertically related oligopolies, we develop a novel framework for directly evaluating the...

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Does Vertical Integration Decrease Prices? Evidence from Paramount Antitrust Case of 1948

Gil, Ricard - 2012

I empirically examine the impact of the 1948 Paramount antitrust case on ticket prices using a unique data set … collected from Variety magazine issues between 1945 and 1955. With weekly movie theater information on prices, revenues and … consistent with Spengler's (1950) prediction that vertical integration lowers prices through the elimination of double …

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Institution-Driven Comparative Advantage, Complex Goods and Organizational Choice

Ferguson, Shon M. - 2012

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 Empirics of Vertical Integration and Foreclosure

Frot, Emmanuel - 2011

Economic theory underlines that vertical mergers are very likely to lead to efficiencies and benefit consumers. On the other hand, more recent research found that vertical integration can also be used as an anti-competitive tool by firms, and harm consumers, notably through foreclosure. These...

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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms : Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance

Altomonte, Carlo - 2013

We explore the nature of Business Groups, that is network-like forms of hierarchical organization between legally autonomous firms spanning both within and across national borders. Exploiting a unique dataset of 270,474 headquarters controlling more than 1,500,000 (domestic and foreign)...

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Institution-Driven Comparative Advantage and Organizational Choice

Ferguson, Shon M. - 2013

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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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms : Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance

Altomonte, Carlo - 2013

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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms : Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance

Altomonte, Carlo - 2013

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On the Benefits of Contractual Inefficiency in Quality-Differentiated Markets

Bacchiega, Emanuele - 2013

Contractual inefficiencies within supply chains increase an input price above its marginal cost, therefore they are considered detrimental to consumer surplus. We argue that such inefficiencies may be beneficial to consumers in quality-differentiated markets where the "finiteness property"...

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Institution-Driven Comparative Advantage and Organizational Choice

Ferguson, Shon M. - 2014

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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