Using comprehensive patent lawsuit data from 2000 to 2014, we find that a stock portfolio consisting of firms involved in patent lawsuits provides significantly positive stock returns (between 0.56% to 1.02% per month) in the following year. We propose and examine several possible explanations...

This research addresses important empirical questions regarding the relationship between Egyptian exports and Egyptian economic growth by extending the Dirtsakis’s model (Dritsakis, 2004, p. 1834) with the addition of the labor force into the model. The hypothesis to be tested is, does export...

The persistence of firm innovative behaviour became an important topic in applied industrial organization following publication of the seminal work of P. Geroski et al. (1997). Knowledge that few firms innovate persistently led previous studies to focus on the determinants of persistence and on...