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Supplier encroachment with mutual outsourcing

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Serfes, Konstantinos - 2023

We examine the incentives and implications of supplier encroachment, when final good produc-tion requires the use of multiple complementary inputs and the entry of a supplier into the final good market gives rise to mutual outsourcing of inputs between the encroaching supplier and the incumbent....

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Rewarding suppliers' performance via allocation of business

Liang, Liping; Atkins, Derek R. - In: Manufacturing & service operations management : M & SOM 23 (2021) 2, pp. 331-345

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Duopolistic Competition, Taxes and the Arm'S-Length Principle

Korn, Evelyn - 2006

tighter transfer-pricing rules may help firms to defuse competition and to increase their profits and that non-compliance to …

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Separation of ownership and control : delegation as a commitment device

Boukouras, Aristotelis - 2011

This paper provides a theoretical model for explaining the separation of ownership and control in firms. An entrepreneur hires a worker, whose effort is necessary for running a project. The worker's effort determines the probability that the project will be completed on time, but the worker...

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Multi-tier hierarchies : a moral hazard approach

Coleff, Joaquin; Sebastián Ivars, Juan Sebastián - 2024

We consider an organization with two projects which have productive spillovers. Three agents are active in this organization: two agents, each specialized in one project, and the CEO, who is a generalist. The organization owner first allocates authority over each project to these three...

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Bluffing Contests : The Real Effects of Pre-Announcing Competitive Decisions

Corona, Carlos - 2010

-announcements. In addition, we show that, the equilibrium real actions and welfare in Cournot competition reach a maximum value when pre … Bertrand competition.We also examine the equilibrium with discretionary pre-announcements. We find that, in Cournot competition … not. In Bertrand competition, however, the equilibrium is contingent on the observability of the disclosure policies. If …

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Common Ownership, Executive Compensation, and Product Market Competition

Bloomfield, Matthew J.; Friedman, Henry L.; Kim, Hwa Young - 2021

The negative effects of common ownership on competition have received significant attention, but many proposed … investors might influence competition. Our model implies a negative effect of common ownership on firms' use of revenue …

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Informational rents and the excessive entry theorem : the case of hidden action

De Pinto, Marco; Goerke, Laszlo; Palermo, Alberto - 2023

Entry in a homogeneous Cournot-oligopoly is excessive if there is business stealing. This prediction assumes that production costs reduce profits and welfare equally. However, this need not be the case. If there is asymmetric information, suppliers or employees can utilize their superior...

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Optimal compatibility in systems markets

Kim, Sang-Hyun; Choi, Jay Pil - 2014

-dimensional spatial competition model. We develop a new methodology to analyze competition on a torus and show that there is a fundamental …, firms are likely to choose the minimal compatibility to maximize product differentiation and soften competition. This is in …

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Competitive Environment and Innovation Intensity

Cornett, Marcia Millon - 2019

innovation intensity to escape competition. The U-shaped relation is more pronounced in industries where firms compete in …

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