intermediary, parameters of the information structure (precisions of public and private information), and the level of stress …

We show that team formation can serve as an implicit commitment device to overcome problems of self-control. In a … other, a relational contract involving teamwork can help to improve an agent’s performance. The mutual promise to work … harder is credible because the team breaks up after an agent has not kept this promise – which leads to individual (under …

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 …

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 …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP …

Substantial elements of innovation have been observable during recent years in rig supply, in particular regarding …

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an … unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … persistence of innovation input and innovation output, a lag effect of the former on the latter and a feedback effect of the …