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008 050304s2002 mau sb 000 0 eng
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050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aBaker, George P.$q(George Pierce)
245 10 $aMake versus buy in trucking$h[electronic resource] :$basset ownership, job design and information /$cGeorge P. Baker, Thomas N. Hubbard.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2002.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 8727
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 3/4/2005.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"Explaining patterns of asset ownership in the economy is a central goal of both organizational economics and industrial organization. We develop a model of asset ownership in trucking, which we test by examining how the adoption of different classes of on-board computers (OBCs) between 1987 and 1997 influenced whether shippers use their own trucks for hauls or contract with for-hire carriers. We find that OBCs' incentive-improving features pushed hauls toward private carriage, but their resource-allocation-improving features pushed them toward for-hire carriage. We conclude that ownership patterns in trucking reflect the importance of both incomplete contracts (Grossman and Hart (1986)) and of job design and measurement issues (Holmstrom and Milgrom (1994))"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
650 0 $aTrucking.
700 1 $aHubbard, Thomas N.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 8727.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/W8727