| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w8727 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 8727 |
| Make Versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design and Information | |
| George P. Baker; Thomas N. Hubbard | |
| 发表日期 | 2002-01-24 |
| 出版年 | 2002 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Explaining patterns of asset ownership in the economy is a central goal of both organizational economics and industrial organization. We develop a model of asset ownership in trucking, which we test by examining how the adoption of different classes of on-board computers (OBCs) between 1987 and 1997 influenced whether shippers use their own trucks for hauls or contract with for-hire carriers. We find that OBCs' incentive-improving features pushed hauls toward private carriage, but their resource-allocation-improving features pushed them toward for-hire carriage. We conclude that ownership patterns in trucking reflect the importance of both incomplete contracts (Grossman and Hart (1986)) and of job design and measurement issues (Holmstrom and Milgrom (1994)). |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Industrial Organization ; Firm Behavior |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w8727 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/566334 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | George P. Baker,Thomas N. Hubbard. Make Versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design and Information. 2002. |
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| w8727.pdf（376KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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