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Profit Taxation, Innovation and the Financing of Heterogeneous Firms

Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

endogenous share opts for innovation and faces credit constraints in the subsequent expansion phase. We emphasize four results …: (i) R&D subsidies not only encourage innovation but also relax finance constraints and help innovative firms to exploit … investment of constrained firms by reducing free cash-flow and thereby discourage innovation. (iii) A revenue neutral increase in …

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Optimal Public Policy for Venture Capital Backed Innovation

Keuschnigg, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

regard to the capital gains tax, innovation subsidy, public R&D spending and other policy initiatives. …

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How Licensing Resolves Hold-Up: Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Data Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity

Siebert, Ralph; von Graevenitz, Georg - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper is a study of licensing in a patent thicket. In a patent thicket licensing allows firms to avoid hold-up. It will have different effects on firms' R&D incentives depending on whether firms license existing or future patents. Building on a model of a patent portfolio race, firms'...

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Jostling for Advantage: Licensing and Entry into Patent Portfolio Races

Siebert, Ralph; von Graevenitz, Georg - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Licensing in a patent thicket allows firms to either avoid or resolve hold-up. Firms’ R&D incentives depend on whether they license ex ante or ex post. We develop a model of a patent portfolio race, which allows for endogenous R&D efforts, to study firms’ choice between ex ante and ex post...

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