Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/104154 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Munich Discussion Paper No. 2004-17
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München
Abstract: 
Abstract: Business groups in emerging markets perform better than unaffiliated firms. We study how business groups can substitute some functions of missing institutions, for example, enforcing contracts. In a two period model, there is no contract enforcement in the first period. The firms within the business group are connected to each other by a vertical production structure, resulting in externalities due to double marginalization, and an internal capital market. Our model derives the sequencing of investments and the credit contract offered by the headquarters that solve the ex post moral hazard problem. Thus, the business group's organizational mode and the financial structure facilitate relational contracting.
Subjects: 
Business groups
internal capital market
institutions
JEL: 
G21
K49
L22
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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