Vertical Integration
This topic analyzes the vertical integration (“make or buy”) decision taken by firms, exploring relevant factors and focusing on the presence of “specific assets”. The value of such assets depends on the continuation of one or several contractual relations.
Cases
- Privatizing British Rail (ref. 264)
- The Langreo Railway (ref. 266)
- Fostering (ref. 267)
- Federal Express (ref. 268)
Exercises
- Pipelines in Texas (ref. 270)
- Office to rent (ref. 271)
- Neighbors’ cooperation (ref. 281)
- Decreasing rotation (ref. 286)
- Subcontracting rush (ref. 288)
- Art dealing (ref. 292)
- The value of former staff (ref. 293)
- Duffy-Mott (ref. 294)
- Far West railroads (ref. 295)
- Comparing Klein et al. (1978) to formal models (ref. 296)
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