Determinants of vertical integration
Subtitle: finance, contracts, and regulation
By: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, Todd Mitton.
Contributors: Johnson, Simon.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11424; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11424.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Vertical integration -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "We study the determinants of vertical integration in a new dataset of over 750,000 firms from 93 countries.  Existing evidence suggests the presence of large cross-country differences in the organization of firms, which may be related to differences in financial development, contracting costs or regulation.  We find cross-country correlations between vertical integration on the one hand and financial development, contracting costs, and entry barriers on the other that are consistent with these "priors".  Nevertheless, we also show that these correlations are almost entirely driven by industrial composition; countries with more limited financial development, higher contracting costs or greater entry barriers are concentrated in industries with a high propensity for vertical integration.  Once we control for differences in industrial composition, none of these factors are correlated with average vertical integration.  However, we also find a relatively robust differential effect of financial development across industries; countries with less-developed financial markets are significantly more integrated in industries that are more human capital or technology intensive"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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