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Management incentives, signaling effects and the costs of vertical integration

Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms’ international sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...

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Research funding and regional economies

Goldschlag, Nathan; Bianchini, Stefano; Lane, Julia; … - 2016

Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that notion is based on aggregate descriptive data, rather than...

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Information integration, coordination failures, and quality of prescribing

Böckerman, Petri; Laine, Liisa T.; Nurminen, Mikko; … - 2020

Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the rollout of an electronic prescribing system in Finland and prescription-level...

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The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality : an experiment in China

Si, Yafei; Chen, Gang; Zhou, Zhongliang; Yip, Winnie C.; … - 2025

significant rise in medical costs or time investment. The gains in care quality were partly attributed to better physician … unnecessary tests but fewer unnecessary drugs to balance their time commitment and costs. The results suggest the role of gender … centeredness may lead to significant gains in the quality of healthcare with modest costs, while reducing gender gaps in care …

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The influence of value-chain governance on innovation performance: a study of Italian suppliers

Brancati, Emanuele; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Mazzi, Caio Torres - 2021

This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products. We take advantage of a unique dataset of Italian firms to identify governance regimes along suppliers’ technological capabilities and the level of explicit coordination in...

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Experts' awards and economic success : evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2015

Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data about the most important...

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Quality and price setting of high-tech goods

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Nam Hoai Vu - 2021

This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...

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On the organizational structure of multinational firms : which sourcing mode for which input?

Südekum, Jens; Nowak, Verena Nina; Schwarz, Christian - 2012

" effect via the suppliers' costs favors vertical integration of both inputs. If production is highly component intensive, and …

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Construction contracts (or : "how to get the right building at the right price?")

Chakravarty, Surajeet (contributor); … - 2006

economics ; incomplete contracts ; construction ; agency theory ; industry studies ; outsourcing ; procurement …

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