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Mobility, Skills, and the Michigan Non-Compete Experiment

Marx, Matt; Strumsky, Deborah; Fleming, Lee - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 6, pp. 875-889

Whereas a number of studies have considered the implications of employee mobility, comparatively little research has considered institutional factors governing the ability of employees to move from one firm to another. This paper explores a legal constraint on mobility--employee non-compete...

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Directed search with real options

Wadeson, Nigel - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 19 (2010) 6, pp. 569-582

While search is normally modelled by economists purely in terms of decisions over making observations, this paper models it as a process in which information is gained through feedback from innovatory product launches. The information gained can then be used to decide whether to exercise real...

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Do business and public sector research and development expenditures contribute to economic growth in Central and Eastern European Countries? A dynamic panel estimation

Silaghi, Pop; Ioana, Monica; Alexa, Diana; Jude, Cristina; … - In: Economic Modelling 36 (2014) C, pp. 108-119

This paper empirically estimates the role of private and public research and development in explaining growth of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEE) during 1998–2008. We employ a dynamic panel model using the Arellano–Bond's Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM). Our findings suggest...

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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: Handbook of Economic Growth

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....

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Innovation by entrants and incumbents

Acemoglu, Daron; Cao, Dan - In: Journal of Economic Theory 157 (2015) C, pp. 255-294

We extend the basic Schumpeterian endogenous growth model by allowing incumbents to undertake innovations to improve their products, while entrants engage in more “radical” innovations to replace incumbents. Our model provides a tractable framework for the analysis of growth driven by both...

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Does intellectual monopoly stimulate or stifle innovation?

Chu, Angus C.; Cozzi, Guido; Galli, Silvia - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 4, pp. 727-746

This study develops an R&D-based growth model with vertical and horizontal innovation to shed some light on the current … debate on whether patent protection stimulates or stifles innovation. We analyze the effects of patent protection in the form … of blocking patents. We show that patent protection changes the direction of innovation by having asymmetric effects on …

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When does elastic labor supply cause an inverted-U effect of patents on innovation?

Chu, Angus C.; Pan, Shiyuan; Sun, Minjuan - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 1, pp. 211-213

This study analyzes how patent protection affects innovation in an R&D-based growth model with elastic labor supply. We … find that increasing patent breadth may generate an inverted-U effect on innovation depending on whether the model features … the knowledge-driven or lab-equipment innovation process. This result highlights an important interaction between elastic …

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The impact of strategic alliances on shareholder wealth: the role of growth opportunity

Huang, Hsu-Huei; Chan, Min-Lee - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 7 (2005) 4, pp. 426-443

The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of strategic alliances on shareholder wealth while also considering the role of firm growth opportunity. By focusing on Taiwan Stock Exchange-listed firms that announced the formation of such alliances from 1996 to 2000, a sample of 140...

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Competing Through Cooperation: The Organization of Standard Setting in Wireless Telecommunications

Leiponen, Aija Elina - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 11, pp. 1904-1919

This study examines cooperative standard setting in wireless telecommunications. Focusing on the competition among firms to influence formal standardization, the roles of standard-setting committees, private alliances, and industry consortia are highlighted. The empirical context is Third...

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Social policies and R&D subsidies: Impact on inequality, unemployment, growth and the tax burden

Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - In: International Journal of Manpower 29 (2008) July, pp. 239-262

Purpose – The paper seeks to analyse the impact of different public policies on inequality, unemployment, growth and the tax burden. Design/methodology/approach – A dynamic general equilibrium model is built, in which growth is driven by endogenous technical progress, to analyse the impacts...

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