{"title":"Global Strategy and MNC Capabilities","authors":"D. Lessard, D. Westney","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3850229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3850229","url":null,"abstract":"Strategy in a global setting involves competition in industries that extend across national boundaries and among firms with different national home bases that may tap into strategic resources in more than one location. The resources that the firm accesses from its home country provide it with international competitive advantage only if they are relevant in other markets, if they are transferable in those markets, and if the value created from international expansion is appropriable. These resources include tangible assets and factors of production, but importantly also the capabilities the firm develops. Similarly, the resources that it taps from other contexts provide it with further competitive adnate only if these resource are more complementary to the firms exiting resources, transferable to the locations where it can exploit them, and appropriable. The resulting RAT and CAT tests provide a framework for international strategic decisions with an emphasis on developing, acquiring, and transferring capabilities.","PeriodicalId":239656,"journal":{"name":"MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper Series","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126365520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ECB's Instruments for Crises and Normal Times: Considerations for the Policy Strategy Review","authors":"Athanasios Orphanides","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3749303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3749303","url":null,"abstract":"The ongoing policy strategy review presents a unique opportunity for the ECB to examine how to best employ its immense power to fulfil its mandate. Two challenges require urgent attention. First, the “lowflation” problem – the outcome of overly tight policies that allowed inflation to drift considerably below 2% over the past several years. Second, the impairment of the monetary policy transmission mechanism in the euro area – a key factor behind the divergence of economic performance of different Member States that threatens the viability of the EMU. The ECB has the authority and tools to address these challenges, within its mandate, with suitable corrections in its monetary policy strategy.","PeriodicalId":239656,"journal":{"name":"MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper Series","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134097254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relative Importance of Fiscal and Monetary Policy: An Empirical Perspective","authors":"M. Czasonis, M. Kritzman, D. Turkington","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3595562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3595562","url":null,"abstract":"The authors introduce a new methodology for determining the relative importance of fiscal and monetary policy to promote growth and stabilize inflation. They apply this methodology to a panel of data that spans 66 years and 17 countries. Their analysis shows that, on average, monetary policy is more effective than fiscal policy at promoting recovery following episodes of low growth and that they are about equally effective in sustaining growth when growth is high. They also find that fiscal policy and monetary policy are about equally effective in curbing inflation when it is high, but that monetary policy is more effective at sustaining low inflation when it is low.","PeriodicalId":239656,"journal":{"name":"MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper Series","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128258231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperative Search Advertising","authors":"X. Cao, T. Ke","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2837261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2837261","url":null,"abstract":"Channel coordination in search advertising is an important but complicated managerial decision for both manufacturers and retailers. A manufacturer can sponsor retailers to advertise his products while at the same time compete with them in position auctions. We model a manufacturer and retailers' cooperation and intra-brand competition in advertising, as well as inter-brand competition with other advertisers. We consider a simple coordination mechanism where a manufacturer shares a fixed percentage of a retailer's advertising cost. Our model prescribes the optimal cooperative advertising strategies from the manufacturer's perspective. We find that it can be optimal for a manufacturer not to cooperate with all his retailers even if they are ex ante the same. This reflects the manufacturer's trade-off between a higher demand versus a higher bidding cost resulting from more competition. We also find that an advertiser's position rank in equilibrium is entirely determined by his channel profit per click, no matter he is a manufacturer or retailer. Consequently, when determining whether to advertise directly to consumers or via retailers, a manufacturer should compare his profit per click from direct sales with the retailer's total channel profit per click; similarly, when choosing which retailer to sponsor, a manufacturer should compare their total channel profits per click. We also investigate how a manufacturer uses both wholesaling and advertising contracts to coordinate channels with endogenous retail prices.","PeriodicalId":239656,"journal":{"name":"MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper Series","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125816827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Gender Differences in Salaries: Evidence for India (Delhi Ncr)","authors":"K. Agarwala","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3188171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3188171","url":null,"abstract":"Gender discrimination in the labour market has been a subject of various social and political debates all around the world. The current research is an examination of the prevalent wage differentials in the organised sector of India’s capital city, Delhi NCR. The cross sectional data set of 95,200 employees pertaining to the year 2016 has been analyzed to reveal that a significant pay disparity exists between the female and male employees. Further more, the trends show that the gap widens as women climb up the corporate ladder. Also, on evaluation of different industries, a variation in the gender pay gap is found, making the pay disparity an industry specific phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":239656,"journal":{"name":"MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper Series","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116290064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Categorization of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Supply Chain Industries in Innovation and Economic Performance","authors":"Mercedes Delgado, Karen G. Mills","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3050296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3050296","url":null,"abstract":"An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper proposes an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. Using the 2002 Benchmark Input- Output Accounts, we introduce a new industry categorization that separates supply chain (SC) industries (i.e., those that sell their goods and services primarily to businesses or government) from business-to-consumer (B2C) industries (i.e., those that sell primarily to consumers). We find that the supply chain economy is a distinct and large segment of the economy, with a mix of manufacturers and more importantly service providers. Supply chain industries, especially “traded” services (i.e., those that are sold across regions, like software), have higher average wages than B2C industries. The supply chain economy also has a much larger intensity of STEM jobs and generates the majority of patents. While STEM jobs are most prevalent among suppliers of traded services, patents are concentrated primarily in manufacturing suppliers. We also find that employment in the economy has been evolving from manufacturing into different types of services for the period under examination (1998–2013): SC traded services (with the highest STEM intensity and wages) experienced high growth in employment and wages; and B2C local services (with the lowest STEM intensity and wages) experienced high growth in employment but a decline in wages. Overall, our findings suggest that the subcategory of supply chain traded services is particularly important to innovation and the economy.","PeriodicalId":239656,"journal":{"name":"MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper Series","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115392731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Central Bank Policies and the Debt Trap","authors":"Athanasios Orphanides","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2912609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2912609","url":null,"abstract":"Monetary policy and fiscal dynamics are inexorably linked. When a government faces the risk of getting caught in a high debt trap, debt monetization may become an appealing option. However, independent central banks may be able to allay debt concerns without compromising price stability. One option is financial repression which, despite associated distortions, can create some fiscal space while preserving price stability. Financial repression is a feature of quantitative easing, which has proven to be an effective policy tool at the zero lower bound. This paper examines the policies of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the ECB in relation to debt dynamics for the United States, Japan, Germany and Italy since the crisis. Important differences are identified across the four states, reflecting differences in the policy choices of the three central banks. While decisive QE policies by the Federal Reserve and, more recently, by the Bank of Japan have been effective, ECB policies have had decidedly uneven consequences on Germany and Italy. The normalization of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is also discussed in a historical context.","PeriodicalId":239656,"journal":{"name":"MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper Series","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128779894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Influence of Green Supply Chain Management Practices on Firm Competitiveness Performances","authors":"Nur Syakila","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2882969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2882969","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The purposes of this study are to examine the significance of GSCM practices- green production, green purchasing and investment recovery towards firm competitiveness performances. Furthermore, the green practices have to be told to the various industries to mitigate and minimize the negative environmental impact. Therefore the employees must be aware of the green practices so that it will encourage everyone to cooperate in it. \u0000Methodology – The method that used is quantitative research which is questionnaire. They distributed it to respondents under the scope of manufacturing firms that using ISO 14001.541 questionnaires had been distributed to the specific person that holds the managerial position of the company but only 100 usable questionnaires were returned and it is the only results that have been used for the entire research. The results are based on regression analysis and equation modeling by using SPSS software. \u0000Findings – The study finds that green production and green purchasing are positive relationship and investment recovery are negative relationship between firm competitiveness performances. \u0000Practical implications – Some of the implications are the positive impact on firm competitiveness regarding green production and green purchasing. Then, to encourage firms to implement GSCM practices in their industry and the firm can implement the 3Rs program which is reuse, reduce and recycle in the production lines. \u0000Originality/value – A comprehensive GSCM practices model is proposed and empirically assessed. The results of this investigation support the proposition that GSCM practices are influence on firm competitiveness performances.","PeriodicalId":239656,"journal":{"name":"MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper Series","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131883883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mortgage Credit Channel of Macroeconomic Transmission","authors":"Daniel L. Greenwald","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2735491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2735491","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates if, how, and when mortgage credit growth propagates and amplifies shocks to the macroeconomy, and evaluates the implications of these dynamics for monetary and macroprudential policy. I develop a general equilibrium framework with endogenous prepayment decisions by borrowers and two credit constraints: a loan to-value constraint, and a limit on the ratio of mortgage payments to income. This realistic structure delivers powerful transmission from interest rates, into mortgage credit growth, house prices and aggregate demand. The keys to transmission are a constraint switching effect through which changes in which constraint binds for borrowers cause large movements in house prices, and a frontloading effect through which waves of prepayment transmit movements in credit limits into the real economy. Monetary policy is more effective at stabilizing inflation due to this channel, but contributes to larger fluctuations in credit growth. A relaxation of payment-to-income standards alone, calibrated to loan-level data, can generate roughly half of the observed increase in price-rent (43%) and debt-to household-income (53%) ratios, while relaxation of loan-to-value standards generates a much smaller boom. A cap on payment-to-income ratios, not loan-to-value ratios, is found to be the more effective macroprudential policy for limiting boom-bust cycles.","PeriodicalId":239656,"journal":{"name":"MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper Series","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133124633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcelo Maziero, J. Savóia, Fabiana Lopes da Silva
{"title":"Transparency and Security in the Derivatives Market: The Brazilian Case","authors":"Marcelo Maziero, J. Savóia, Fabiana Lopes da Silva","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2856353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2856353","url":null,"abstract":"The over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives were considered a core cause for the increase of the systemic risk in the global markets, which ended up in the burst of the markets on the financial crisis in 2008. Among the lessons learned, the need to improve the transparency, controls and surveillance of the derivatives markets is a key driver to the structural reforms designed to make the derivatives markets less susceptible to the excesses observed in the period before the peak of the crisis. On this paper we compare the intended configuration for the global derivatives markets after the implementation of the reforms proposed by G20/FSB with the one existent in the Brazilian market since the beginning of this century, showing that the Brazilian derivatives market already presented very high standards of transparency and control. Based on this conclusion, we also propose that the global regulators carefully study the Brazilian case, benefiting from the experience of a market that has been working successfully on this subject for more than 30 years.","PeriodicalId":239656,"journal":{"name":"MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper Series","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133328558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}