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at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and … Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing a firm’s market position given the characteristics of its product supply …. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm’s propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture …
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innovation. The firm’s disclosure strategy results from the trade-off between two effects on product market incentives. First …
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We introduce a new ‘supply-push’ instrument for foreign aid, to be used together with an instrumental variable estimator that filters out unobserved common factors. We use this instrument to study the effects of aid on macroeconomic ratios, and especially the ratios of consumption,...
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We show the effects of the bargaining power of labour unions on product innovation under decentralised and centralised … union bargaining power increases innovation if bargaining is decentralised, the market expansion effect is weak and the cost … of innovation is moderate but low. Otherwise, a higher union bargaining power reduces innovation. Hence, whether a higher …
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The ability of companies to turn an environmental constraint into a source of strategic opportunities is a controversial topic in published research. The article, which is based on a comparative study of the CO2 emission reduction strategies implemented by the cement and chemical industries,...
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that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
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We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and … highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the innovation. We characterize the equilibrium behavior, outcomes and …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP …
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Substantial elements of innovation have been observable during recent years in rig supply, in particular regarding …
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