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This paper builds a model of stock exchange competition tailored to the institutional and regulatory details of the …
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effects of competition on individuals' creative production. Using a sample of commercial logo design competitions, and a novel …, content-based measure of originality, I find that intensifying competition induces agents to produce original, untested ideas … over tweaking their earlier work, but heavy competition drives them to stop investing altogether. The results yield lessons …
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We study why high-priced acquisitions of entrants by an incumbent do not necessarily stimulate more innovation and entry in an industry (like that of digital platforms) where customers face switching costs and enjoy network externalities. The prospect of an acquisition by the incumbent platform...
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innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of … rate, consistent with increased intellectual property competition …
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We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million …-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …
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This paper examines the impact of government-sponsored venture capitalists (GVCs) on the success of enterprises. Using international enterprise-level data, we identify a surprising non-monotonicity in the effect of GVC on the likelihood of exit via initial public offerings (IPOs) or third party...
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at which they upgrade the quality of their products. We analyze the effect of import competition on quality upgrading …
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public policy objectives, including value-creation, innovation, and competition. A number of novel data-collection methods …
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So long as the entry and exit of firms using the generic technology sets the price in an industry, one or more price-taking firms can coexist with proprietary technologies yielding more or less substantial quasi-rents to the sunk development costs. Consumer welfare is increased if an innovator...
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