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ItemA bargaining perspective on strategic outsourcing and supply competitionDe Fontenay, CC ; Gans, JS (John Wiley & Sons, 2008-08-01)This article considers the outsourcing choice of a downstream firm with its own upstream production resources or assets. The novelty of the approach is to consider the outsourced function as involving resources consistent with the resource-based view of the firm. From a bargaining perspective, we characterize a downstream firm’s decision whether to outsource to an independent or to an established upstream firm. In so doing, the downstream firm faces a trade-off between lower input costs afforded by independent competition, and higher resource value associated with those who can consolidate upstream capabilities. We show that this tradeoff is resolved in favor of outsourcing to an established firm.
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ItemConcentration-based merger tests and vertical market structureGans, JS (UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, 2007-11)
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ItemBorn on the first of July: An (un)natural experiment in birth timingGans, JS ; Leigh, A (ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA, 2009-02)
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ItemA Dearth of Exit StrategiesGans, J (SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW ASSOC, MIT SLOAN SCHOOL MANAGEMENT, 2009-03-01)
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ItemMarkets for ownershipGans, JS (RAND, 2005-06-01)
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ItemThe Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant DelaysGANS, J ; Hsu, D ; Stern, S ( 2008)
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ItemPATENT LENGTH AND THE TIMING OF INNOVATIVE ACTIVITYGANS, JS ; KING, SP (Wiley, 2007-12)The standard result in patent policy, as demonstrated by Gilbert and Shapiro (1990), is that infinitely lived but very narrow patents are optimal as deadweight losses are minimised and spread through time but inventors can still recover their R&D expenditures. By extending their innovative environment to include timing as an important choice, we demonstrate that a finitely lived, but broader, patent can be socially desirable. This is because a patent breadth is a better instrument than length to encourage socially optimal timing. Thus, patents need not be infinitely long in order to encourage a greater number of inventions
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ItemPaying for loyalty: Product bundling in oligopolyGans, JS ; King, SP (BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2006-03)
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ItemAccess holidays and the timing of infrastructure investmentGans, JS ; King, SP (ECONOMIC SOC OF AUSTRALIA BROWN PRIOR ANDERSON PTY LTD, 2004-03)For risky infrastructure investment, ‘regulatory truncation’ can diminish investment incentives. We model the truncation problem, showing the link to regulatory commitment, and derive optimal state‐contingent access prices. If regulators cannot commit ex ante to specific ex post access prices then a regulatory commitment to a fixed period free of access – an access holiday – can improve investment incentives. We establish conditions under which an access holiday may improve investment timing and show how an optimal holiday depends on the underlying profit flows from the investment. In particular, we show that an optimal holiday may leave investors with positive expected economic profits.