Alipranti, Maria; Petrakis, Emmanuel - Department of Economics, University of Crete - 2012
, as well as, the effects of the vertical relations on the firms' timing of adoption. It demonstrates that in vertically …. Further, comparing the speed of the firms' technology adoption in one-tier and two-tier industries, we show that …, independently of the upstream market structure, technology adoption may occurs earlier in two-tier than in one-tier industries …