The Impact of Competition on “Make-or-Buy” Decisions: Evidence from the Spanish Local TV Industry
Abstract
This paper empirically investigates whether changes in product market competition affect firm boundaries. Exploiting regulation-induced shocks to entry barriers and differences in regulation enforcement across cities to obtain exogenous variation in competition, we establish a negative causal effect of competition (through reduced entry barriers and a larger number of rival firms) on vertical integration in the setting of the Spanish local...
Paper Details
Title
The Impact of Competition on “Make-or-Buy” Decisions: Evidence from the Spanish Local TV Industry
Published Date
Mar 1, 2018
Journal
Volume
64
Issue
3
Pages
1121 - 1135
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