This paper introduces a novel analysis of the classic quot;persistence of leadershipquot; question, and applies it to a newly constructed dataset for Japanese manufacturing. The analysis rests on an appeal to an empirical quot;scaling relationshipquot; between current market share and the...

Agricultural research drives increases in agricultural productivity, and the number of private agricultural input firms has been declining. The empirical relationship between the number of firms doing applied biotechnology crop research and the amount of research output they produce is...

Agricultural research drives increases in agricultural productivity, and the number of private agricultural input firms has been declining. The empirical relationship between the number of firms doing applied biotechnology crop research and the amount of research output they produce is...