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We study a multinational enterprise’s (MNE) choice of foreign direct investment (FDI) mode in a vertically related market with local input sourcing. We show that the vertical structure of the market and its features play a crucial role for the MNE.s decision: backward linkages, enhanced...
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This paper explores how vertical relations influence the timing of new technology adoption. It shows that both the bargaining power distribution among the vertically related firms and the contract type through which vertical trading is conducted affect crucially the speed of adoption: the...
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This paper explores how vertical relations influence the timing of new technology adoption. It shows that both the bargaining power distribution among the vertically related firms and the contract type through which vertical trading is conducted affect crucially the speed of adoption: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213858
The present paper examines the firms' incentives to adopt a new cost reducing technology in vertically related markets, as well as, the effects of the vertical relations on the firms' timing of adoption. It demonstrates that in vertically related industries, independently of the upstream market...
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We study the impact of space on perfect collusion sustainability within the unidirectional Hotelling model where the firms are constrained to move to the left. We obtain that when the firm that located to the left of the Hotelling segment has the greater incentive to deviate, the distance...
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allow for elastic demand functions. A Bertrand-type model and a Cournot-type model are considered. If firms choose location … in Cournot than Bertrand under the whole parameters’ set. We also study the impact of firms’ location on perfect …
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O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as recentes fusões e aquisições na siderurgia brasileira e mundial no sentido de verificar se a reestruturação observada resultou em elevação dos lucros do setor. Primeiramente, testamos um modelo teórico proposto por Inderst e Wey (2004) e encontramos...
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infinity. In the limit, a range of outcomes stretching from Cournot via Stackelberg to Bertrand can result in equilibrium, i …-stage game, the set of outcomes is a quasi-hyperrectangle including Cournot, Allaz-Vila, and all two-stage Stackelberg outcomes …. In general, it consists of T-1 such hyperrectangles where the lower bound approaches the Bertrand outcome as T tends to …
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