Search Results - subject_exact:"Vertical integration"

Markets, contracts, and hierarchies : how bargaining frictions affect governance

Ellingsen, Tore; Miettinen, Topi - 2026 - First version, April 2025, Revised January 2026

We develop an organizational governance model with a single buyer and endogenous upstream entry. Investments and control rights over assets and actions are immediately contractable; production is contractable after uncertainty resolves. We show the following: Supplier competition eliminates...

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Multiple roles of agricultural cooperatives in improving farm technical efficiency : a case study of rural Gansu, China

Li, Xinyi; Ito, Junichi - 2025

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Vertical integration with two-sided heterogeneity and firm-to-firm network structure of production

Heiland, Inga; Saito, Yukiko Umeno - 2025

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Foreclosure incentives with network effects : a framework for screening digital mergers

Johnen, Johannes; Shekhar, Shiva - 2025

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Foreclosure incentives with network effects : a framework for screening digital mergers

Johnen, Johannes; Shekhar, Shiva - 2025

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Flexclusivity : exclusive agreements with competitive flexibility

Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2025

Sellers face a critical choice: run competitive auctions or strike exclusive deals with preferred buyers. Contrary to conventional wisdom that sellers should rely on open competition, we show that a powerful seller optimally commits to a sequential `flexclusivity' arrangement - a strategic mix...

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Flexclusivity : exclusive agreements with competitive flexibility

Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2025

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Exploring the effects of sustainable innovation on a textile company's business network

Dominidiato, Matteo; Guercini, Simone; Tunisini, Annalisa - 2025

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Digital ecosystems, the adtech tax and content quality

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio; Shekhar, Shiva - 2025

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Digital ecosystems : the adtech tax and content quality

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio; Shekhar, Shiva - 2024

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Digital ecosystems : the adtech tax and content quality

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio; Shekhar, Shiva - 2024

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The costs of counterparty risk in long-term contracts

Fabra, Natalia; Llobet, Gerard - 2026

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The costs of counterparty risk in long-term contracts

Fabra, Natalia; Llobet, Gerard - 2025

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Classifying the integration of healthcare providers and insurers

Liang, Xiaodan; Mullahy, John - 2025

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Mandated data-sharing in hybrid marketplaces

Navarra, Federico; Pino, Flavio; Sandrini, Luca - 2024

We study a hybrid marketplace where a vertically integrated platform competes with a seller in a horizontally differentiated downstream market. The platform has a data advantage and can price discriminate consumers, whereas the seller cannot. Our analysis shows that, by properly setting the...

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Vertical integration and plan design in healthcare markets

Cuesta, José Ignacio; Noton Norambuena, Carlos; … - 2024

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Vertical Integration and Plan Design in Healthcare Markets

Cuesta, José Ignacio; Noton, Carlos E.; Vatter, Benjamin - 2024

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Concentrating intelligence: scaling and market structure in artificial intelligence

Korinek, Anton; Vipra, Jai - 2024

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Concentrating Intelligence : Scaling and Market Structure in Artificial Intelligence

Korinek, Anton; Vipra, Jai - 2024

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Vertical integration in tradable green certificate markets

Coria, Jessica; Jaraitė, Jūratė - 2024

This study examines how the impact of Tradable Green Certificates (TGC) on profitability and investment behavior varies depending on the vertical integration status of regulated firms. Our theoretical model predicts that vertical integration does not lead to higher profits when internal pricing...

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Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining

Mukherjee, Arijit; Sinha, Uday Bhanu - 2024

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Complementary inputs, outsourcing and vertical integration : price versus quantity competition

Mukherjee, Arijit; Senalp, Burcu - 2024

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The commitment of farmers to traditional and hybrid cooperatives : empirical evidence over a six-year period

Hansen, Rebecca; Hess, Sebastian; Nilsson, Jerker; … - 2024

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Vertical separation revisited

Nakabayashi, Masaki - 2024

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Markets, Contracts, and Hierarchies: How Bargaining Frictions Affect Governance

Ellingsen, Tore; Miettinen, Topi - 2026

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Monopolistic competition under horizontal and vertical differentiation

Kichko, Sergei; Marini, Marco; Saulle, Riccardo D.; … - 2026

This paper extends the CES model of monopolistic competition to the case where varieties are both horizontally and vertically differentiated. A distinctive feature of our model is the presence of a network externality, which operates through the number of varieties available at each quality...

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Monopolistic competition under horizontal and vertical differentiation

Kichko, Sergei; Marini, Marco; Saulle, Riccardo D.; … - 2026

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Monopolistic competition under horizontal and vertical differentiation

Kichko, Sergey; Marini, Marco; Saulle, Ricardo; Thisse, … - 2026

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Designing vertical differentiation with information

Carnehl, Christoph; Sobolev, Anton; Stahl, Konrad; … - 2026 - Original version: October 2024, this version: February 2026

We study information design in a vertically differentiated market. A third party publicly discloses information about the product qualities of two competing firms. More precise information improves consumer matching but increases perceived differentiation, enabling firms to raise prices....

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Designing vertical differentiation with information

Carnehl, Christoph; Sobolev, Anton; Stahl, Konrad; … - 2025

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Designing vertical differentiation with information

Carnehl, Christoph; Sobolev, Anton; Stahl, Konrad; … - 2025

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Quality upgrading in global supply chains: evidence from Colombian coffee

Macchiavello, Rocco; Miquel-Florensa, Josepa; Roux, … - 2026

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Quality upgrading in global supply chains : evidence from Colombian coffee

Macchiavello, Rocco; Miquel-Florensa, Josepa; Roux, … - 2025

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Quality upgrading in global supply chains : evidence from Colombian coffee

Macchiavello, Rocco; Miquel-Florensa, Josepa; Roux, … - 2025

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Quality upgrading in global supply chains : evidence from colombian coffee

Macchiavello, Rocco; Miquel-Florensa, Josepa; Roux, … - 2025

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Exclusionary contracts and incentives to innovate

Ulsaker, Simen Aardal - 2026

This paper develops a game-theoretic model to study how exclusionary contracts affect firms' incentives to invest in innovation. Several symmetric sellers compete to supply an identical product to a set of buyers, and each seller can invest in R&D to develop a higher-quality version of the...

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Supply chain structure and blockchain deployment strategies in competing supply chains

Wang, Tingting; Chang, Shan; Hu, Guoping; Shi, Victor - 2026

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Regulating platform bias : self-preferencing and transaction fees as strategic substitutes

Chi, Chang Koo; Choi, Jay Pil; Hahn, Jong-Hee; Kim, … - 2026

This paper studies self-preferencing incentives by vertically integrated platforms that operate both marketplaces and affiliated retail businesses. We show that self-preferencing and transaction fees are substitute instruments for profit extraction, implying that restrictions on...

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The balance of power in franchising

Atz, Ulrich; Eliason, Blake; Lipsitz, Michael; … - 2026

We measure how the contractual balance of power between franchisors and franchisees has shifted over 2009-2024 by analyzing a large corpus of Franchise Disclosure Documents and surveying over 300 franchisees. Coding more than 20 provisions across 4,500 chains, we find that franchisee autonomy...

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The triple engine effect: does full vertical alignment unlock the state?

Garg, Sandhya; Sedai, Ashish Kumar - 2026

Does "full vertical alignment" - political congruence across national, state, and local tiers - drive economic development? Using a sharp regression discontinuity design based on close state elections in India, we estimate the causal effects of multilevel alignment on growth, inequality, and...

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Critical Minerals Supply Chains Security and Resiliency in the ASEAN, Vol. 1 : Lessons from Economics and Finance

2026

Chapter 1 An Economic Analysis of Supply Chain Aspects of Critical Mineral Resources: Revisiting Resource Pricing -- Chapter 2 Unpacking Critical Mineral Supply Chains Competitiveness for Sustainable Investment -- Chapter 3 The Emerging Global Market for Energy Transition Critical Minerals:...

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Import competition and domestic vertical integration : theory and evidence from Chinese firms

Du, Xin; Shi, Xiaoxia - 2026

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Superstar exclusivity in two-sided markets

Carroni, Elias; Madio, Leonardo; Shekhar, Shiva - 2024

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Superstar exclusivity in two-sided markets

Carroni, Elias; Madio, Leonardo; Shekhar, Shiva - 2023

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The octopus that shrank : a historical analysis of how multinationals address policy and contractual uncertainty in a global value chain

Bucheli, Marcelo; Ciravegna, Luciano; Sáenz, Luis Felipe - 2023

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Information provision in hybrid platforms

Magnani, Marco; Navarra, Federico - 2023

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Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) strategies of established consumer goods manufacturers : a dynamic capability perspective

Lienhard, Severin - 2023

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Tertiary industries' value-added as a linkage’s engine : an interstate input-output application for Brazilian regions

Rodrigues Sanguinet, Eduardo; Rodríguez-Puello, Gabriel - 2023

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The impact of shared telecom infrastructure on digital connectivity and inclusion

Houngbonon, Georges V.; Ivaldi, Marc; Palikot, Emil; … - 2025

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The impact of shared telecom infrastructure on digital connectivity and inclusion

Houngbonon, Georges V.; Ivaldi, Marc; Palikot, Emil; … - 2023

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Financial crises and the global supply network : evidence from multinational enterprises

Basco, Sergi; Felice, Giulia; Merlevede, Bruno; … - 2024

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Financial crises and the global supply network : evidence from multinational enterprises

Basco, Sergi; Felice, Giulia; Merlevede, Bruno; … - 2023

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Financial crises and the global supply network : evidence from multinational enterprises

Basco, Sergi; Felice, Giulia; Merlevede, Bruno; … - 2023

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Financial Crises and the Global Supply Network : Evidence from Multinational Enterprises

Basco, Sergi; Felice, Giulia; Merlevede, Bruno; … - 2023

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Financial Crises and the Global Supply Network : Evidence from Multinational Enterprises

Basco, Sergi; Felice, Giulia; Merlevede, Bruno; … - 2023

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Effects of platforms' entry into own marketplace : evidence from the mobile application market

Jamison, Mark A.; Tecza, Jakub; Wang, Peter - 2023

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Partially adaptive econometric methods and vertically integrated majors in the oil and gas industry

Carson, Scott Alan; Al-Sawai, Wael M. - 2023

Regression model error assumptions are essential to estimator properties. Least squares model parameters are consistent and efficient when the underlying error terms are normally distributed but yield inefficient estimators when errors are not normally distributed. Partially adaptive and...

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Exclusive dealing in the presence of a vertically integrated firm

Bui, Dang-Long; Simanjuntak, Damiana; Zonda, Joe Maganga - 2023

This study constructs a successive Cournot model to investigate the possibility that a separated upstream input supplier can solely sell the intermediate good to a separated downstream manufacturer through an exclusive contract in the presence of a vertically integrated rival. We find that the...

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What determines in-house service activities within manufacturing firms : firm-level evidence from Korea

Lee, Siwook - 2023

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The impact of brand equity on vertical integration in franchise systems

Kayed, Mohammad; Kacker, Manish; Wu, Ruhai; Sadeh, Farhad - 2025

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A holistic approach to sustainability: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and corporate sustainability

Banelienė, Rūta; Strazdas, Rolandas - 2025

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Foreclosure Incentives with Network Effects: A Framework for Screening Digital Mergers

Johnen, Johannes; Shekhar, Shiva - 2025

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Vertical integration in auction markets

Onderstal, Sander; van Oosten, Ruben - 2025

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Flexclusivity: Exclusive Agreements with Competitive Flexibility

Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2025

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Vertical spillovers and the energy intensity of European industries

Rahko, Jaana - 2025

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Upstream vs. downstream grants : the role of public contributions in improving railway efficiency in Europe

Schäfer, Jan Thomas - 2025

The level of government support significantly influences the performance of European railways. However, prior analyses have largely focused on the sector as a whole, neglecting the distribution of public budget contributions between the upstream infrastructure manager and downstream service...

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Vertical integration in a world without social capital : the example of coal mining in turn-of-the-century Japan

Ramseyer, J. Mark - 2025

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Downstream cross-holdings and upstream advertising

Hu, Qing; Mizuno, Tomomichi - 2025

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Welfare implications of supplier encroachment with consumer shopping costs

Caprice, Stéphane; Shekhar, Shiva - 2025

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Welfare implications of supplier encroachment with consumer shopping costs

Caprice, Stéphane; Shekhar, Shiva - 2025

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Vertical market structure matters : the case of a horizontal retail merger in the German gasoline market

Oschmann, Sebastian - 2025

This article examines the price effects of gasoline stations following a retail merger in 2022. Using detailed station-level price data from 2020 to 2024, the analysis shows that fuel prices increase at both merging stations and their competitors, but with regional differences. These regional...

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