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Organization of multinational activities and ownership structure
Mugele, Christian; Schnitzer, Monika - 2006
assume that investors face costs of control that vary among sectors and increase in distance. The results show that (i … distance may have a non-monotonous effect on the likelihood of horizontal investments, and (iii) that globalization, if … understood as reducing distance, leads to more integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366525
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Organization of Multinational Activities and Ownership Structure
Mugele, Christian; Schnitzer, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
assume that investors face costs of control that vary among sectors and increase in distance. The results show that (i … distance may have a non-monotonous effect on the likelihood of horizontal investments, and (iii) that globalization, if … understood as reducing distance, leads to more integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005739686
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Organization of Multinational Activities and Ownership Structure
Mugele, Christian; Schnitzer, Monika - 2006
assume that investors face costs of control that vary among sectors and increase in distance. The results show that (i … distance may have a non-monotonous effect on the likelihood of horizontal investments, and (iii) that globalization, if … understood as reducing distance, leads to more integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427459
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Organization of Multinational Activities and Ownership Structure
Mugele, Christian; Schnitzer, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
assume that investors face costs of control that vary among sectors and increase in distance. The results show that (i … distance may have a non-monotonous effect on the likelihood of horizontal investments, and (iii) that globalization, if … understood as reducing distance, leads to more integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187323
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Organization of multinational activities and ownership structure
Mugele, Christian; Schnitzer, Monika - 2006
assume that investors face costs of control that vary among sectors and increase in distance. The results show that (i … distance may have a non-monotonous effect on the likelihood of horizontal investments, and (iii) that globalization, if … understood as reducing distance, leads to more integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003368141
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Optimal ownership and firm performance : an analysis of China's FDI liberalization
Eppinger, Peter S.; Ma, Hong - 2023
Seminal theories of the firm posit that firm ownership is allocated to minimize contractual inefficiencies. Yet, it remains unclear how much the optimal ownership choice affects firm performance in practice. This paper provides a first quantification of the gains from optimal ownership within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014312548
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Optimal Ownership and Firm Performance : An Analysis of China's FDI Liberalization
Eppinger, Peter S.; Ma, Hong - 2023
Seminal theories of the firm posit that firm ownership is allocated to minimize contractual inefficiencies. Yet, it remains unclear how much the optimal ownership choice affects firm performance in practice. This paper provides a first quantification of the gains from optimal ownership within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346399
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Contracting institutions and firm integration around the world
Eppinger, Peter S.; Kukharskyy, Bohdan - 2021
Firm integration is fundamentally shaped by contractual frictions. But do better contracting institutions, reducing these frictions, induce firms to be more or less deeply integrated? To address this question, this paper exploits unique micro data on ownership shares across more than 200,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548172
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Make Versus Buy in Trucking : Asset Ownership, Job Design, and Information
Hubbard, Thomas N.; Baker, George P. - 2003
Explaining patterns of asset ownership in the economy is a central goal of both organizational economics and industrial organization. We develop a model of asset ownership in trucking, which we test by examining how the adoption of different classes of on-board computers (OBCs) between 1987 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031222
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Power, Ownership and Entity : Some Issues on the Nature of the (Network) Firm
Chassagnon, Virgile - 2009
The firm was evicted from economic analysis for a long time. It appeared as a particular and substantial "scope" thanks to the economist R.H. Coase at the end of the 1930'S but sunk into oblivion for three decades. This paper deals with the 1970's renewal of interest in the theory of the firm,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014211144