rapidly developing country, China. We find that the government encouraged local innovation by opening regions to more …Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and … innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual model and then empirically testing it using pesticide innovation data from a …

continued reconfiguration of the independent modular components of the supply chain so as to achieve optimal leverage of both …. Keywords: value creation, flexible supply chain architectures, leverage, core competencies. …

substitute for learning-by-purchasing, and show that the advertising intensity always peaks during the early stages when the … informative advertising may temporarily raise prices and slow down the learning process, an advertising ban can reduce welfare. …

Unlike many studies of learning and pharmaceuticals, this paper considers credence goods such as vitamins and the role … speed of learning about vitamins with the speed of learning about drugs. …

loss aversion can induce asymmetry between two conflicting learning effects of calorie posing: a calorie-decreasing effect … of learning that one was underestimating calorie contents (LUE effect) and a calorie-increasing effect of learning that …

learning, synergy, or both. Using a rich panel data set of Ethiopian subsistence farmers, we estimate a distance function of … to learning that increases the farmers' productivity. However, labor sharing does not lead to learning as the … sharing. The results suggest that interaction and observation alone is not enough to produce learning that leads to …

-effect quantile regression procedure to estimate the impacts of determinants at different ranges of leverage. The effects of …