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Cutting too Close? Design Protection and Innovation in Fashion Goods
Hackett, Petal Jean - CESifo - 2012
Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
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Timing of Technology Adoption and Product Market Competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - CESifo - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
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Innovation Strategies in a Competitive Dynamic Setting
Lukach, Ruslan; Plasmans, Joseph; Kort, Peter M. - CESifo - 2005
This paper presents a dynamic model of a competitive R&D and production duopoly subject to knowledge spillovers. Two … planner prefer the R&D-cooperative strategy over the competitive one regardless of the intensity of knowledge spillovers … venture, the firms do not necessary choose the highest degree of cooperation available. …
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R&D and Production Behavior of Asymmetric Duopoly Subject to Knowledge Spillovers
Plasmans, Joseph - CESifo - 2000
We construct an asymmetri c duopolistic R&D and production behavior model subject to knowledge spillovers. This model …
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The Optimal Climate Policy Portfolio when Knowledge Spills across Sectors
Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - CESifo - 2010
spillovers between the energy and the non-energy sector, we show that the combination between environmental and knowledge …
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How Effective are Advertising Bans? On the Demand for Quality in Two-Sided Media Markets
Greiner, Tanja; Sahm, Marco - CESifo - 2011
We study a two-sided markets model of two competing television stations that offer content of differentiated quality to ad-averse consumers and advertising space to firms. As all consumers prefer high over low quality content, competition for viewers is vertical. By contrast, competition for...
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Can Competition Reduce Quality?
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2014
In a spatial competition setting there is usually a non-negative relationship between competition and quality. In this paper we offer a novel mechanism whereby competition leads to lower quality. This mechanism relies on two key assumptions, namely that the providers are motivated and...
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Firm Level Productivity under Imperfect Competition in Output and Labor Markets
Amoroso, Sara; Kort, Peter M.; Melenberg, Bertrand; … - CESifo - 2010
This article examines the role of the interaction between product market and labor market imperfections in determining total factor productivity growth (TFPG). Embedding Dobbelaere and Mairesse’s (2009) generalization of Hall’s (1990) approach, allowing for the possibility that wages are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583691
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Financial Constraints and other Obstacles: Are they a Threat to Innovation Activity?
Loeff, Sybrand Schim van der; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; … - CESifo - 2008
In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms’ decision to abandon, prematurely stop, seriously slow...
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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing
Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated...
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