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Balance Across Firms: Exploration and Exploitation in Alliances Between Platform Participants 企业间的平衡:平台参与者之间联盟的探索与开发
Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3413876
Kenan Guler, Doug Miller
The literature identifies four modes of balancing exploration/exploitation activities within a single firm. We develop a framework for examining alliances noting that whether an alliance represents exploration or exploitation for a partner depends on the activity relative to that partner’s past activities. Balancing these activities across firms in distinct domains can achieve the benefits of multiple modes while avoiding some pitfalls. We find that alliances in which one partner explores while the other exploits outperform, on average, those alliances in which partners conduct symmetric activities. Also, alliances with both partners exploiting outperform those when both partners explore. Bridging the longstanding exploration/exploitation literature to the platform literature, we also develop and test hypotheses about the relationships among alliance performance, platform characteristics and partnership characteristics.
文献确定了在单个公司内平衡勘探/开发活动的四种模式。我们开发了一个审查联盟的框架,指出联盟对合作伙伴来说是探索还是剥削,取决于与该合作伙伴过去的活动相关的活动。在不同领域的公司之间平衡这些活动可以获得多种模式的好处,同时避免一些陷阱。我们发现,平均而言,一方进行探索而另一方进行开发的联盟比那些进行对称活动的联盟表现更好。此外,双方都在开发的联盟比双方都在开发的联盟表现更好。将长期的探索/开发文献与平台文献相结合,我们还提出并检验了关于联盟绩效、平台特征和伙伴关系特征之间关系的假设。
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引用次数: 0
Markups and Inequality 标记和不平等
Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.3386/W25952
Corina Boar, Virgiliu Midrigin
We study the relationship between markups, firm concentration and inequality using a model of entrepreneurial dynamics in an environment with incomplete markets and borrowing constraints. A key ingredient of the model is that markups are endogenous so that the markup a producer charges depends on the amount of competition it faces. We ask two questions. First, what fraction of the rise in income and wealth inequality is due to changes in the U.S. tax code and decline in anti-trust enforcement that led to a rise in the level and dispersion of markups? Second, what are the consequences of policies aimed at curtailing the market power of firms and reducing the level of markups? We answer these questions by studying micro-level data on income and wealth, entrepreneurial activity and product market concentration through the lens of our model.
我们研究了加价、企业集中度和不平等之间的关系,使用了一个不完全市场和借贷约束环境下的创业动态模型。该模型的一个关键要素是加价是内生的,因此生产商收取的加价取决于其面临的竞争程度。我们问两个问题。首先,收入和财富不平等的加剧,有多大比例是由于美国税法的变化和反垄断执法力度的减弱导致了加价水平的上升和分散?其次,旨在削弱企业市场支配力和降低加价水平的政策会产生什么后果?我们通过模型的视角研究收入和财富、创业活动和产品市场集中度等微观层面的数据,回答了这些问题。
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引用次数: 25
External Governance and Internal Resource Allocation 外部治理与内部资源配置
Pub Date : 2019-04-04 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2923404
James F. Albertus, Andrew Bird, S. Karolyi, T. Ruchti
We exploit Regulation SHO as a natural experiment to investigate the effects of short selling threats on intrafirm capital allocation. Using detailed data on the foreign operations of multinationals, we find that the marginal effect on aggregate investment masks a significant effect on intrafirm reallocation. Managers reallocate investment and R&D expenditures across borders toward productive subsidiaries and R&D centers, respectively. Treated firms shifted 30% more capital toward foreign subsidiaries with strong recent performance. These results provide new evidence on the scope and potential benefits of governance by short sellers and demonstrate the importance of cross-border spillovers of capital markets regulation.
我们利用SHO法规作为自然实验来研究卖空威胁对公司内部资本配置的影响。利用跨国公司海外经营的详细数据,我们发现对总投资的边际效应掩盖了对企业内部再配置的显著影响。管理者将投资和研发支出跨国界重新分配给生产性子公司和研发中心。接受治疗的公司向近期表现强劲的外国子公司转移了30%以上的资本。这些结果为卖空者治理的范围和潜在利益提供了新的证据,并证明了资本市场监管跨境溢出的重要性。
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引用次数: 3
The Network of Firms Implied by the News 新闻暗示的公司网络
Pub Date : 2019-02-20 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3320859
G. Schwenkler, Hannan Zheng
We show that the news is a rich source of data on distressed firm links that drive firm-level and aggregate risks. The news tends to report about links in which a less popular firm is distressed and may contaminate a more popular firm. This constitutes a contagion channel that yields predictable returns and downgrades. Shocks to the degree of news-implied firm connectivity predict increases in aggregate volatilities, credit spreads, and default rates, and declines in output. To obtain our results, we propose a machine learning methodology that takes text data as input and outputs a data-implied firm network.
我们表明,新闻是一个丰富的数据来源,关于陷入困境的公司联系,推动公司层面和总体风险。新闻倾向于报道那些不太受欢迎的公司陷入困境并可能影响到更受欢迎的公司的联系。这构成了一个传染渠道,产生可预测的回报和评级下调。对新闻暗示的企业连通性程度的冲击预示着总波动率、信贷息差和违约率的增加,以及产出的下降。为了获得我们的结果,我们提出了一种机器学习方法,该方法将文本数据作为输入并输出数据隐含的公司网络。
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引用次数: 18
Disproportionate Gains: A Home Market Effect in an Almost Arbitrary Geography 不成比例的收益:几乎任意地域的国内市场效应
Pub Date : 2019-02-03 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3328253
Jordan J. Norris
The Home Market Effect (HME) provides a mechanism for trade driven by demand: locations with a comparatively large consumer base for an industry specializes in production of that industry. The theory originates with Krugman in the 1980s, yet, despite the many iterations since, sharp theoretical predictions are only given in two-location models. As the world has more than two locations, empirical operationalization requires, therefore, assumptions outside of the model. By making only a single additional assumption relative to the canon --- the matrix of interregional iceberg trade costs is positive semi-definite --- I prove that the HME continues to hold in many location models on average. Furthermore, the empiricist needs to make little amendment: the HME hypothesis test valid in many-locations is almost identical to that already being implemented using the two-location hypothesis.
国内市场效应(HME)为需求驱动的贸易提供了一种机制:一个行业拥有相对较大的消费者基础的地区专门从事该行业的生产。该理论起源于20世纪80年代的克鲁格曼,然而,尽管此后多次迭代,尖锐的理论预测只在双位置模型中给出。由于世界上有两个以上的地点,因此,经验操作化需要模型之外的假设。通过只做一个相对于经典的额外假设——区域间冰山贸易成本矩阵是正的半确定的——我证明了平均而言,HME在许多位置模型中继续成立。此外,经验主义者需要做一点修改:在许多地点有效的HME假设检验几乎与已经使用双地点假设实施的检验相同。
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引用次数: 0
Overbooking with Endogenous Demand 内生需求超额预订
Pub Date : 2019-01-23 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3321409
Rowena Gan, Noah Gans, Gerry Tsoukalas
Using airlines as a backdrop, we study optimal overbooking policies with endogenous customer demand, when customers internalize their expected cost of being bumped. We first consider the traditional setting in which compensation for bumped passengers is fixed and booking limits are the airline's only form of control. We provide sufficient conditions under which demand endogeneity leads to lower overbooking limits in this case. We then consider the broader problem of joint control of ticket price, bumping compensation, and booking limit. We show that price and bumping compensation can act as substitutes, which reduces the general problem to a more tractable one-dimensional search for optimal overbooking compensation and effectively allows the value of flying to be decoupled from the cost of being bumped. Finally, we extend our analysis to the case of auction-based compensation schemes and demonstrate that these generally outperform fixed compensation schemes. Numerical experiments that gauge magnitudes suggest that fixed-compensation policies that account for demand endogeneity can significantly outperform those that do not and that auction-based policies bring smaller but still significant additional gains.
本文以航空公司为背景,研究了考虑内生客户需求的最优超售策略。我们首先考虑传统的情况,在这种情况下,对乘客的补偿是固定的,预订限制是航空公司唯一的控制形式。我们提供了足够的条件,在这种情况下,需求内生性导致较低的超额预订限制。然后,我们考虑了更广泛的票价、碰撞补偿和预订限制的联合控制问题。我们证明了价格和航班延误补偿可以作为替代品,这将一般问题简化为更易于处理的一维搜索,以寻找最优的超售补偿,并有效地使飞行价值与航班延误成本解耦。最后,我们将分析扩展到基于拍卖的薪酬方案,并证明这些方案通常优于固定薪酬方案。衡量幅度的数值实验表明,考虑到需求内生性的固定薪酬政策的表现明显优于那些不考虑需求内生性的政策,而基于拍卖的政策带来的额外收益较小,但仍然显著。
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引用次数: 1
Competition and Implementation Cycles 竞争及推行周期
Pub Date : 2018-11-06 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3279837
Sai Ma
This paper studies how innovating firms’ timing decisions on implementing new ideas affect macroeconomic fluctuations with the presence of two sources of competition: imperfect substitutability across products and imitations within products. In order to take advantage of a higher aggregate demand, firms may strategically choose to implement innovative ideas simultaneously with other firms. As a result, implementation cycles emerge endogenously in equilibrium. Using U.S. IPO and Venture-backed companies data, I first provide some empirical evidence on the existence of implementation cycles with an average frequency of 3.7 years. Second, a stylized model shows that smaller substitutability across products and longer imitation processes can contribute to a longer and lower frequent implementation cycle; it, however, has a larger impact on driving the fluctuations of macro variables. Third, when firms can only observe noisy private sunspot signals on others’ implementation decisions, the equilibrium can feature no, short, and long cycles depending on the realization of the sunspots.
本文研究了在存在两种竞争来源的情况下,创新企业实施新理念的时机决策如何影响宏观经济波动:产品之间的不完全可替代性和产品内部的仿制品。为了利用更高的总需求,企业可能会战略性地选择与其他企业同时实施创新理念。其结果是,实现周期在平衡中内生地出现。利用美国IPO和风投支持的公司数据,我首先提供了一些经验证据,证明实施周期的存在,平均频率为3.7年。其次,程式化模型表明,产品之间较小的可替代性和较长的模仿过程可以导致更长的实施周期和更低的频率;然而,它对驱动宏观变量波动的影响更大。第三,当企业只能在其他公司的实施决策上观测到嘈杂的私人太阳黑子信号时,根据太阳黑子的实现,平衡可以具有无、短和长周期。
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引用次数: 0
An Accurate Price Comparison of Communications Services in Canada and Select Foreign Jurisdictions 加拿大通信服务的准确价格比较和选定的外国司法管辖区
Pub Date : 2018-10-19 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3309214
Christian M. Dippon
Since 2008, Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) have retained Wall Communications Inc. (Wall) or NGL Nordicity Group Ltd. (Nordicity) to conduct a price comparison of communication services in Canada and select foreign jurisdictions (“the Study”). Wall and Nordicity use nearly identical study methodologies, and every year both consultancies claim that Canadian prices are among the highest in the industrialized world. The purpose of the present report is first to examine the accuracy, or lack thereof, of the Wall/Nordicity Study and second to conduct an economically sound price comparison for the same countries.

This report reaches two overarching conclusions: (1) The Study’s finding of high prices in Canada relative to other countries is false because it is the result of a poorly designed study and incorrect data interpretation; and (2) a properly designed and executed study methodology reveals that the existing prices for communications services in Canada are cheaper than the prices that foreign providers would charge in Canada for the same service plans.

The Wall/Nordicity Study compares the prices of communications services in Canada and other countries that are closest to artificial demand profiles established by the consultancy performing the Study, not actual service plans. This approach results in an apples-to-oranges comparison because none of the plans the Study compares are identical. Often the plans being compared are fundamentally different in terms of the services they offer (e.g., number of voice minutes included, data allowance, roaming), network quality (e.g., upload and download speeds), and the geography in which the services are provisioned (e.g., a network in Japan has a different cost structure than a network in Canada). The comparisons in the Study prove nothing about price levels in Canada because they only reflect how close or far certain providers’ plans are relative to the artificial demand profiles established by the consultancy performing the Study.

Correcting for the significant shortcomings of the Wall/Nordicity Study, this report introduces a proper price comparison of communications services in Canada and ISED’s select foreign jurisdictions. This analysis reveals that: (1) Canadian providers do not charge high prices relative to the benchmark countries; and (2) approximately 80% of the Canadian mobile wireless telephony, mobile broadband Internet, and fixed broadband Internet plans studied have prices below international benchmarks, which means that Canadian consumers are paying relatively lower prices given the specific market offerings, networks, and country conditions.

自2008年起,创新、科学及经济发展局(ISED)及加拿大广播电视及电讯委员会(CRTC)委任Wall Communications Inc. (Wall)或NGL Nordicity Group Ltd. (Nordicity)对加拿大及部分外国司法管辖区的通讯服务进行价格比较(“研究”)。Wall和Nordicity使用几乎相同的研究方法,每年这两家咨询公司都声称加拿大的物价是工业化国家中最高的。本报告的目的首先是审查Wall/ nordic研究报告是否准确,其次是对同一国家进行经济上合理的价格比较。该报告得出了两个主要结论:(1)该研究关于加拿大相对于其他国家的高价格的发现是错误的,因为这是设计不良的研究和错误的数据解释的结果;(2)适当设计和执行的研究方法表明,加拿大现有的通信服务价格比外国供应商在加拿大为相同的服务计划收取的价格便宜。Wall/Nordicity研究比较了加拿大和其他国家的通信服务价格,这些国家最接近进行研究的咨询公司所建立的人工需求概况,而不是实际的服务计划。这种方法的结果是苹果和橙子的比较,因为研究所比较的计划都不相同。通常被比较的计划在它们提供的服务(例如,包含的语音分钟数,数据津贴,漫游),网络质量(例如,上传和下载速度)以及提供服务的地理位置(例如,日本的网络与加拿大的网络具有不同的成本结构)方面存在根本差异。研究中的比较并不能证明加拿大的价格水平,因为它们只反映了某些供应商的计划相对于执行研究的咨询公司所建立的人为需求概况有多接近或远。为了纠正Wall/ nordic研究的重大缺陷,本报告对加拿大和ise选定的外国司法管辖区的通信服务进行了适当的价格比较。这一分析表明:(1)相对于基准国家,加拿大供应商收取的价格并不高;(2)大约80%的加拿大移动无线电话、移动宽带互联网和固定宽带互联网计划的价格低于国际基准,这意味着考虑到特定的市场产品、网络和国家条件,加拿大消费者支付的价格相对较低。
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Regulating Advertising Quantity: Is This Policy Efficient? 管制广告数量:有效吗?
Pub Date : 2018-10-13 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2847856
Jiekai Zhang
There is a long debate whether TV advertising time should be restricted (as in the EU and UK nowadays) or be left unregulated (as in the US since 1982). This paper exploits a novel dataset of per hour data on 12 major TV broadcasters in France to investigate the efficiency of regulation using an empirical two-sided market model. I first estimate the demand function of TV viewers and advertisers, in order to account for the two-sidedness of the market in the supply decision of TV stations. I then identify the shadow prices of regulation based on the observed regulatory constraints. Finally, I conduct counterfactual simulations to calibrate the regulation’s impact on viewers and advertisers. The results suggest that deregulating the market would increase the market advertising level by 4%, reduce the number of views per advert by 2%, and increase the average advertising cost per view by 0.5%. Accordingly, deregulation could increase the TV broadcasters’ net advertising revenue by 7%, but reduce the surplus of advertisers, and possibly damage the surplus of TV viewers if the broadcasters do not commit to improving the program quality.
电视广告时间是应该受到限制(就像现在的欧盟和英国),还是应该不受管制(就像1982年以来的美国),人们一直在争论。本文利用法国12家主要电视广播公司的每小时数据的新数据集,使用经验双边市场模型来研究监管的效率。本文首先对电视观众和广告商的需求函数进行估计,以解释电视台供给决策中市场的两面性。然后,我根据观察到的监管约束确定了监管的影子价格。最后,我进行了反事实模拟,以校准该规定对观众和广告商的影响。结果表明,放松市场管制将使市场广告水平提高4%,每条广告的浏览量减少2%,每条广告的平均浏览量增加0.5%。因此,放松管制可以使电视广播公司的净广告收入增加7%,但减少了广告商的盈余,如果广播公司不致力于提高节目质量,可能会损害电视观众的盈余。
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引用次数: 5
A Research Framework for Business Models: What Is Common Among Fast Fashion, E-Tailing, and Ride Sharing? 商业模式的研究框架:快时尚、电子零售和拼车有什么共同之处?
Pub Date : 2018-09-16 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3250441
Gérard P. Cachon
Every firm has a business model, which is the collection of strategic decisions that determine how the firm generates a sustainable enterprise through the creation of enough value (its supply model...
每个公司都有一个商业模式,它是一系列战略决策的集合,这些决策决定了公司如何通过创造足够的价值(它的供应模式……
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