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Cabral, Luís M B; Cozzi, Guido; Denicolò, Vincenzo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We … discuss the effects of standard setting activities by large, often public, procurers on innovation races. We evaluate how …

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The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability

Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

An inventor can invest research effort to come up with an innovation. Once an innovation is made, a contract is …

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This Paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...

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The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues – including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...

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Competition Enhancing Policies and Infrastructure: Evidence from Russia

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper investigates whether the efficiency effect of product market dispersion is a function of the infrastructural and policy environment. We hypothesise that more developed transportation and communication infrastructure and lower government regulation may reduce transaction costs,...

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Privatization, Competition and Reform Strategies: Theory and Evidence from Russian Enterprise Panel Data

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

A critical, but largely unexamined assumption in the debate over reform policy design, concerns the complementarity or substitutability of market competition and private ownership in increasing firm efficiency. We analyse a simple Cournot model that distinguishes two aspects of privatization...

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Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper uses 1985-99 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector, but increased slightly during the transition, while job...

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Competition And Firm Performance: Lessons From Russia

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

The 'big-bang' liberalization of the inefficient Russian economy in 1992 provides a fruitful setting for analysing the impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyse 1992-1998 panel data on 14,961 enterprises covering 75 percent of...

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Entry Mistakes

Cabral, Luís M B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

Frequently, aspiring entrants have only limited information about their potential rivals’ entry decisions. As a result, the outcome of the entry game may be that more firms enter than the market can sustain; or, at least, that unnecessary entry investments are made. We refer to these outcomes...

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Exclusive versus Non-exclusive Licensing Strategies and Moral Hazard

Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

An upstream firm can license its innovation to downstream firms that have to exert further development effort. There …

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