Finance-technology complementarities: An organizational equilibria approach

Antonio Nicita and Ugo Pagano

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2016, vol. 37, issue C, 43-51

Abstract: Unlike many pre-crisis contributions, Oliver Williamson emphasized how different investment projects involve different forms of governance. According to him, their specificity contents define and separate the appropriate conditions for debt and equity governances. Our paper extends his contribution by arguing that, while the degree of specificity of the technology influences the choice of the governance, also the reverse is true: equity and debt governances involve different degrees of specificity. Thus, we have to deal with finance-technology complementarities, which can generate multiple organizational equilibria. Their possible inefficiency provides an argument for regulating the limits of each form of governance and for understanding the variety of arrangements existing in real life economies.

Keywords: Transaction costs; Corporate governance and finance; Institutional complementarity; Organizational equilibria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2015.11.005

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