全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP12518 Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters

G2TT

来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP12518
	DP12518 Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters
	Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta; Jonas Hjort; Christopher Hansman; Matthieu Teachout
发表日期	2017-12-19
出版年	2017
语种	英语
摘要	We study the relationship between firms’ output quality and their choice of organizational structure. To do so, we use data on each step of the production and transaction chain that makes up Peruvian fishmeal manufacturing. We first show that quality upgrading is an important motive for vertically integrating. Firms integrate suppliers when the quality premium—the relative price of high quality output—rises for exogenous reasons, but not when average or low quality prices rise. The greater a firm’s scope for shifting low to high quality production, the greater its integration response. We then show that integration changes suppliers’ production behavior. A given supplier’s actions are less geared towards increasing quantity and more geared towards maintaining input quality after the supplier is integrated and loses access to alternative pay-per-kilo buyers. Finally, we show that firms and individual plants that use integrated suppliers at the time of production ultimately produce a significantly higher share of high quality output. In sum, our results suggest that firms change their organizational structure when their output quality objectives change because controlling the incentives of independent suppliers facing a quantity-quality trade-off is difficult, as classical theories of the firm predict.
主题	Development Economics ; Industrial Organization ; International Trade and Regional Economics
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp12518
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541329
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta,Jonas Hjort,Christopher Hansman,et al. DP12518 Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters. 2017.