Business Groups and Trade in East Asia: Part 1, Networked Equilibria /
Feenstra, Robert C.
Business Groups and Trade in East Asia: Part 1, Networked Equilibria / Robert C. Feenstra, Deng-Shing Huang, Gary G. Hamilton. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1997. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w5886 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5886. .
January 1997.
We propose an economic model of business groups that allows for the cooperative behavior of groups of firms, where the number and size of each group is determined endogenously. In this framework, more than one configuration of groups can arise in equilibrium: several different types of business groups can occur, each of which is consistent with profit-maximization and is stable. This means that the economic logic does not fully determine the industrial structure, leaving scope for political and sociological factors to have a lasting influence. In a companion paper, we argue that the differing structures of business groups found in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan fit the stylized results from the model, and contrast the impact of these groups on the product variety of their country exports to the United States.
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Business Groups and Trade in East Asia: Part 1, Networked Equilibria / Robert C. Feenstra, Deng-Shing Huang, Gary G. Hamilton. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1997. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w5886 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5886. .
January 1997.
We propose an economic model of business groups that allows for the cooperative behavior of groups of firms, where the number and size of each group is determined endogenously. In this framework, more than one configuration of groups can arise in equilibrium: several different types of business groups can occur, each of which is consistent with profit-maximization and is stable. This means that the economic logic does not fully determine the industrial structure, leaving scope for political and sociological factors to have a lasting influence. In a companion paper, we argue that the differing structures of business groups found in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan fit the stylized results from the model, and contrast the impact of these groups on the product variety of their country exports to the United States.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.