Vertical integration, supplier behavior, and quality upgrading among exporters
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- dc.contributor.author Hansman, Christopher
- dc.contributor.author Hjort, Jonas
- dc.contributor.author León-Ciliotta, Gianmarco
- dc.contributor.author Teachout, Matthieu
- dc.date.accessioned 2025-01-29T09:26:35Z
- dc.date.available 2025-01-29T09:26:35Z
- dc.date.issued 2020
- dc.description Supplementary materials files: online appendix; replication data.
- dc.description.abstract We study the relationship between firms’ output quality and organizational structure. Using data on the production and transaction chain that makes up Peruvian fish meal manufacturing, we establish three results. First, firms integrate suppliers when the quality premium rises for exogenous reasons. Second, suppliers change their behavior to better maintain input quality when vertically integrated. Third, firms produce a higher share of high-quality output when weather and supplier availability shocks shift them into using integrated suppliers. Overall, our results indicate that quality upgrading is an important motive for integrating suppliers facing a quantity-quality trade-off, as classical theories of the firm predict.
- dc.description.sponsorship León-Ciliotta acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, through the Severo Ochoa Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D (SEV2015-00563) and grants ECO2011-25272 and RYC-2017-23172.
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- dc.identifier.citation Hansman C, Hjort J, León-Ciliotta G. Teachout M. Vertical integration, supplier behavior, and quality upgrading among exporters. J Polit Econ. 2020 Sep;128(9):3570-625. DOI: 10.1086/708818
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/708818
- dc.identifier.issn 0022-3808
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69356
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher University of Chicago Press
- dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Political Economy. 2020 Sep;128(9):3570-625
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/ECO2011-25272
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- dc.subject.other Empreses -- Control de qualitat
- dc.subject.other Empreses -- Direcció i administració
- dc.subject.other Farina de peix -- Perú
- dc.title Vertical integration, supplier behavior, and quality upgrading among exporters
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