Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154908 
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Year of Publication: 
1998
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Nota di Lavoro No. 50.1998
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Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper studies stable structures of efficiency-enhancing joint ventures among symmetric firms. Efficiency gains that accrue to a joint venture are assumed to increase with its size. The socially efficient industry-wide joint venture is the stable outcome when membership of a joint venture is open to outside firms, but typically not when membership can be restricted. Members of a large joint venture want to restrict membership for strategic reasons - e.g., in order to keep rival firms' costs high. Side payments among firms do not eliminate the strategic incentives of members of a large joint venture to limit membership.
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Working Paper

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