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Competition, Imitation, and R&D Productivity in a Growth Model with Sector-Specific Patent Protection

Mosel, Malte - CESifo - 2010

Recent empirical studies suggest a need for a flexible patent regime responding to industry characteristics. In practice, sector-specific modifications of patent strength already exist but lack theoretical foundation. This paper intends to make up for this neglect by scrutinizing in what...

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Toward a Sustainable Transport Development in Asia and the Pacific

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - CESifo - 2011

Despite remarkable growth during the last decade, Asia and the Pacific still faces extensive basic infrastructure needs … region needs to enhance its connectivity through developing transport infrastructure at the national and regional level to … infrastructure will have profound implications on environment and climate change at the national, regional and global levels as well …

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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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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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Labor Unions, Globalization, and Mercantilism

Grieben, Wolf-Heimo; Sener, Fuat - CESifo - 2009

We analyze the growth and welfare effects of globalization in a dynamic Schumpeterian North-South product-cycle model. Economic growth is driven by R&D activities of Northern entrepreneurs. Top Northern production technologies are imitated by the South. In the North, there is wage bargaining...

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The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey

Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2013

Will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away? A literature review of the five policy areas (1) termination monopoly, (2) local bottleneck access, (3) net neutrality, (4) spectrum management, and (5) universal service suggests that in some of them a move to...

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Powering Up Developing Countries through Integration?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2012

Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...

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Government Outsourcing: Public Contracting with Private Monopoly

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M. - CESifo - 2006

The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost of public funds. An alternative to regulation is proposed in which firms are free to enter the market and to choose...

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Net Neutrality and Investment Incentives

Choi, Jay Pil; Kim, Byung-Cheol - CESifo - 2008

This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation on investment incentives for Internet service providers (ISPs) and content providers (CPs), and their implications for social welfare. We show that the ISP’s decision on the introduction of discrimination across content depends on a...

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Will the U.S. and EU Telecommunications Policies Converge? A Survey

Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2014

Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local loops is largely deregulated in the U.S. but continues to be regulated in the EU. Or, the U.S. has an elaborate universal service policy with a set of universal service funds and...

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