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Upstream-Downstream Specialization by Integrated Firms in a Partially Integrated Industry

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Gaudet, G.
Long, N.V.
Soubeyran, A.

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We propose a simple model of a partially integrated industry which explicitely takes into account persistant production cost differences across upstream firms, such as one might observe in natural resource industries. The model allows us to highlight the respective roles of strategic considerations and of cost considerations in the determination of an integrated firm'interaction with the non-integrated sector of the industry and, in the end, on its relative upstream- downstream specialization. Stylized facts from the oil industry are used to illustrate the type of behaviour one might expect in this context.

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Paper provided by Laval - Recherche en Politique Economique in its series Papers with number 9604.

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Keywords: INDUSTRY; OIL PRICES; NATURAL RESOURCES;

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