Investing in capabilities: bidding in st
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Catherine A. Maritan; Robert E. Florence
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract We explore how firms invest in capabilities by acquiring assets in strategic factor markets. We formalize the problem using an auction model in which heterogeneous firms bid for an asset to investigate relationships among expected returns to the investment, information used to estimate