Cross ownership and divestment incentives

Rune Stenbacka; Geert Van Moer

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109748

Cross ownership and divestment incentives

Rune Stenbacka^*, Geert Van Moer

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Economics, Helsinki

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Abstract

Even though cross ownership raises industry profits, we demonstrate that it is prone to a commitment problem. Specifically, we show that producers in a Cournot duopoly have unilateral incentives to resell their minority share-holdings in the rival to outside investors, leading to an equilibrium with complete divestments. This feature challenges the stability of cross ownership configurations.

Original language	English
Article number	109748
Peer-reviewed scientific journal	Economics Letters
Volume	201
Number of pages	13
ISSN	0165-1765
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109748
Publication status	Published - 12.02.2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article - refereed

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511 Economics
Cross ownership
Divestment incentives

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