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Radical or incremental: Where does R&D policy hit?

Beck, Mathias; Lopes-Bento, Cindy; Schenker-Wicki, Andrea - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing where the policy effect is highest …: on innovation close to the market (i.e. incremental innovation) or on innovation that is still far from the market and … market failure is highest, that is, for radical innovation. Taking into account that the Swiss funding agency encourages …

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Heavyweights – The Impact of Large Businesses on Productivity Growth

Falck, Oliver - CESifo - 2007

The idea of an industrial policy that promotes large businesses—heavyweights—as the best way to compete in a globalized world has become, again, en vogue among European politicians. The only apparent controversy about the idea revolves around whether it is better to promote national...

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The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Competition and Firm Size Matter?

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest less in current R&D as uncertainty about market...

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Firm Size and Monetary Policy Transmission – Evidence from German Business Survey Data

Ehrmann, Michael - CESifo - 2004

Using business survey data on German manufacturing firms, this paper provides tests for hypotheses formulated in capital market imperfection theories that predict distributional effects in the transmission of monetary policy. The business conditions of small firms are found to be somewhat more...

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Firm Size and Diversification: Asymmetric Multiproduct Firms under Cournot Competition

Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2003

A positive relationship between firm size and product diversification is a long-standing stylized fact. However, so far there is no appropriate theoretical model to explain the underlying forces of this observation. This paper analyzes an oligopoly model with asymmetric multiproduct frms, which...

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Managerial Job Assignment and Imperfect Competition in Asymmetric Equilibrium

Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2003

This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms. performance. Despite an ex ante symmetry of potential entrants, the equilibrium assignment of heterogeneous managerial skills to firms...

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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?

Harhoff, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to cash flow for relatively small firms. Much of this...

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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth

Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers' attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...

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Do Network Externalities Really Matter In Consumer Behavior ? Experimental Framework For Measuring Willingness To Pay For Network Size

Cadario, Romain; Le Nagard, Emmanuelle; Desmet, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

Consequences of network externalities, such as product growth and innovation diffusion, are widely studied in marketing …

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Alliances et imitation : antagonisme ou complémentarité dans la diffusion d’une technologie ?

Cartier, Manuel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

recherche propose d’aborder ces stratégies sous un angle collectif et d’étudier leur impact sur la dynamique d’une industrie … méthodologie spécifique est déployée, à la fois inductive, puisque fondée sur la monographie de l’industrie photographique, et … dans l’industrie photographique les trajectoires technologiques de 33 entreprises, leurs alliances et les mouvements d …

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