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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Economies of scope"”.
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Diversification and Economies of Scope: A Theory of the Multiproduct Firm
Recent theoretical studies of multiproduct firms discuss such firms from the viewpoint that they already exist. One topic that is missing from the theory of multiproduct firms is how they came into being. This dissertation puts forth a theory of diversification which seeks to explain how …
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Conglomerate Mergers and the Pursuit of Economies of Scope (Multiproduct, Q Ratio, Capm, Risk)
… explain conglomerate mergers as a simple pursuit of market power and/or economies of specialization. Further complicating the problem, empirical evidence indicates that while the acquired firm shareholders gain substantially, the acquiring firm shareholders just break even. This dissertation …
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Acquiring and Exploiting Knowledge: The Two Faces of Diversification
… capacity, then even after controlling for economies of scope, diversification would be associated with firm value. Thus diversification may enhance firm performance not only due to economies of scope, but also due to the new knowledge and intangibles accumulated by the firm.
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Three Essays On Private Market Interactions
… The second study directly tests the economies of scope hypothesis of Gao, Ritter, and Zhu (2013) using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodology of Demerjian et al. (2012, 2013). I find private firms with less than $50 million in sales are more likely to be acquired than to …
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Die Bündelung von Payments for Environmental Services als Möglichkeit eines effizienten Schutzes von Biodiversität
… hier der Speicherung von Kohlenstoffdioxid, wird hinsichtlich der Wirkungen auf die Schutzniveaus beider Ökosystemleistungen und der Veränderung der Produktionsweise des landwirtschaftlichen Sektors in einem monopsonistischen Modelansatz analysiert. Durch die formale Analyse zeigt …
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Cost synergies in the commercial banking industry: An econometric examination
This study contributes to the issue of bank product deregulation by examining whether cost synergies, measured by economies of scope, exist in the production of banking services. Using the multiproduct cost economies approach, the existence of overall and product-specific economies of scope and …
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Bidder response to combinatorial auctions in truckload procurement
… use conditional bids within the framework of a combinatorial auction to win more business and balance their existing networks. Because a considerable portion of a truckload carrier's cost of serving a given lane is associated with the probability of finding a follow-on load (i.e. economies …
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Bits of power : the involvement of municipal electric utilities in broadband services
… with three hypotheses. First, the probability of MEUs involvement in telecommunications responds to technology-based economies of scope from internal services deployed to support their power business. Second, MEUs' likelihood for offering telecommunication services decreases in presence of …
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Structural analysis and control of flexible manufacturing systems with a performance perspective
… are shifting from the previously sought economies of scale to the so called economies of scope, where emphasis is placed on product variety and customization, as well as the increased responsiveness of the production system to widely fluctuating demands. At the shop-floor level, this new …
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ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΕΣ ΚΛΙΜΑΚΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΘΝΙΚΗ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ
THIS PH.D THESIS INVESTIGATES THE QUESTION OF ECONOMIES OF SCALE IN A SINGLE BANKING FIRM WHICH PRODUCES SIMULTANEOUSLY MANY PRODUCTS (DEPOSITS, LOANS, AXILLARY SERVICES) WITH THE USE OF MANY INPUTS (CAPITAL, LABOUR, MANAGEMENT). WE ADOPTED ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND WE USED FLEXIBLE TANSLOG TAYLOR …
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Towards an Augmented Reality-based Cyber-Physical Production System Planner
… for decades, despite comprising a majority of the nation’s manufacturing industry. The cyber-physical production systems (CPPSs) introduced by Industry 4.0 promise to bolster productivity and efficiency, but only for those enterprises which invest in constituent technologies. These …
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The impact of corporate governance on auditor independence: A study of audit committess in UK listed companies.
… Audit Committees and External Auditors’ fees of a sample of FTSE 350 companies in the UK for the period of 2005-2006. This is achieved by providing answers to three main research questions. First, what are the determinants of Audit Committee activity? Second, what is the relationship between …
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Flexible manufacturing equipment design based on a mass customization strategy
… facing an increased challenge to meet the needs of individual customers in a cost effective manner. The days of mass producing standardized products for homogeneous markets for long periods of time are quickly fading from memory. Instead, a large variety of products must be produced at the same …
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Systems modelling of the South African offshore demersal hake trawl fishery : an economic perspective
The offshore demersal hake trawl is the largest sector of the South African hake fishery, which targets shallow-water (Merluccius capensis) and deep-water (M. paradoxus) Cape hakes. Economically, it is the most important fishery in South Africa, generating ZAR ~5 billion in revenue, mainly from …
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Three Essays On Diversification Strategy, Diversification Performance, And Corporate Misconduct
… Prior literature has evaluated the effect of total diversification on insurer performance; however, there is an absence of evidence on the effect of diversification strategy for multi-line insurers. Theory suggests that related diversifiers should benefit from economies of scope while …
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Essays on Networks and Industrial Organization
… a network. The group’s strength equals the sum of its members' efforts, where links measure their pairwise complementarity or interference. I characterize equilibria for general networks, and find only few members are likely to contribute. Furthermore, the prize and a network measure of …
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Essays on banking
… focus is made on the empirical estimation of the importance of such imperfections in the Portuguese market. The thesis is organised in three different essays, being the first focused on real resources costs, the second on market power and price and non-price competition and the third …
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The determinants of agglomeration in Brazil: input-output, labor and knowledge externalities
… forces that are commonly viewed as sources of agglomeration economies, namely the input-output and labor pooling externalities. Knowledge externalities, the third classic source of Marshallian agglomeration economies, are partially captured through labor-embodied knowledge usage. …