Efficiency and Vertical Integration: The Case of Mine-Mouth Electric Generating Plants

Joe Kerkvliet

Journal of Industrial Economics, 1991, vol. 39, issue 5, 467-82

Abstract: This paper tests four propositions regarding the efficiency of vertical arrangements: (1) vertically integrated and nonintegrated firms allocate inputs with efficiency and (2) achieve equal technical efficiency; (3) upstream transaction-specific investments provide monopsony power; and (4) monopsony behavior does not differ by vertical arrangement. A behavioral cost function for mine-mouth generating plants is estimated. The findings include significant differences in the allocative efficiency of integrated versus nonintegrated plants and increased technical efficiency for vertically integrated plants. Transaction-specific investments in mines provide monopsony power. Nonintegrated plants exercise this power, while integrated plants do not. Copyright 1991 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Date: 1991
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