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The Effects of Vertical Separation and Competition: Evidence from US Electric Utility Restructuring
Competition usually increases firm productivity; but in network industries, effective competition requires vertical separation, which might reduce...
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Vertical Strategy with Quality Differentiation in an Import-competing Market
We examine the vertical strategies of home and foreign manufacturers that produce quality-differentiated products. In contrast to previous results...
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Backward Partial Vertical Integration Through Private Placement
We analyze the market impact of a partial vertical integration whereby a subset of retail firms acquire, through a private placement operation, a...
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Information exchange through secret vertical contracts
We study a common agency problem in which two downstream firms, who are local monopolists and receive private demand signals, offer secret menus of...
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Supplier Relations—Extended Quasi-Vertical Integration
This chapter analyzes the characteristics of Hyundai Motor’s parts supply structure. Hyundai Motor has a supply chain that is markedly different from...
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Alternative forms of buyer power in a vertical duopoly: implications for profits, welfare, and cost pass-through
We examine the implications of different ways in which downstream firms can exercise buyer power over their upstream suppliers. We derive several...
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Cost Assessment of (Un)bundling: Separation of Vertically Integrated Public Utilities
In this chapter, we focus on the unbundling or separation of vertically integrated public utilities, which has been the cornerstone of competitive...
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A futile help: do vertical transfer payments promote haze control?
Most existing studies believe that vertical transfer payments (VTPs) can enhance the fiscal capacity of local governments, thus improving the...
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The Effects of Vertical Integration in the Korea Movie Industry: Efficiency Versus Exclusion
This paper tries to verify empirically whether vertical integration results in efficiency or exclusion in the Korea movie industry. We gathered a...
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Vertical distribution and phylogenetic characterization of marine Archaea in the western subarctic Pacific
Archaea represent a prevalent and abundant microbial group and are believed to play a crucial role in marine ecosystems. Archaeal distribution...
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Welfare reducing vertical licensing in the presence of complementary inputs
This research explores the welfare implications of vertical licensing when the final goods are produced by multiple complementary inputs. We...
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Vertical contracting between a vertically integrated firm and a downstream rival
Compared to linear tariffs, two-part tariffs are generally perceived as being more efficient since double marginalization is avoided. We investigate...
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Evaluating the Evidence on Vertical Mergers
In theory, vertical mergers can have both procompetitive and anticompetitive effects. Many early empirical studies found benefits for vertical...
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Academic Spin-Offs’ Growth: Exploring the Role of Team Vertical Diversity and Academic Knowledge Corridor
The paper focuses on academic spin-offs (ASOs) and their team composition. To date, little attention has been devoted to investigating diversity of...
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Presumptions in Vertical Mergers: The Role of Evidence
Vertical mergers have attracted much attention in recent years. We assess the role of presumptions and likelihoods in vertical merger analysis and...
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Monitoring decisions in vertical integration
We propose a model where the manufacturer makes two main decisions: whether or not to monitor the retailer, and whether or not to vertically...
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Supply shift by a vertically integrated foreign firm under domestic integration
This study constructs a vertical structure model where domestic upstream and downstream firms compete with a vertically integrated foreign firm...
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Cost Assessment of (Un)bundling: Separation of Vertically Integrated Public Utilities
In this chapter, we focus on the unbundling or separation of vertically integrated public utilities, which has been the cornerstone of competitive...
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Brand premia driven by perceived vertical differentiation in markets with information disparity and optimistic consumers
We have considered a duopoly with perceived vertical differentiation, information disparity and optimistic consumers. When firms compete for informed...
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A Study on the Contractual Arrangement of Agricultural Land Transfer and Vertical Coordination of Agriculture Industrialization
The development of agriculture industrialization is the inevitable path for China’s agricultural modernization. Highlighting the innovation and...