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Quantity or quality? Knowledge alliances and their effects on patenting

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2013

This study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2009 that knowledge alliances have a positive effect on patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. However, when distinguishing between alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and...

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R&D partnerships and innovation performance: Can there be too much of a good thing?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014

R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance. Collaboration, however, involves transaction costs...

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Patents as quality signals? The implications for financing constraints on R&D

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Hottenrott, Hanna - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014

Information about the success of a new technology is usually held asymmetrically between the research and development (R&D)-performing firm and potential lenders and investors. This raises the cost of capital for financing R&D externally, resulting in financing constraints on R&D especially for...

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Policy-induced environmental technology and inventive efforts: Is there a crowding out?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2013

innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …

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A spatial approach to measure productivity spillovers of foreign affiliated firms in Turkish manufacturing industries

Karaçuka, Mehmet; Catik, A. Nazif - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2011

In this paper we aim to analyze the productivity spillovers of foreign affiliated and domestic firms in Turkish … the existence of positive and significant productivity spillovers among the neighborhood firms. We also find that an … increase in the share of foreign affiliated firms in a given industry has positive impact on the productivity level of …

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Targeted pricing, consumer myopia and investment in customer-tracking technology

Baye, Irina; Sapi, Geza - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014

We analyze how consumer myopia influences investment incentives into a technology that enables firms to track consumers' purchases and make targeted offers based on their preferences. In a two-period Hotelling setup firms may invest in customer-tracking technology. If a firm acquires the...

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Consumer flexibility, data quality and targeted pricing

Sapi, Geza; Suleymanova, Irina - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2013

We investigate how firms' incentives to acquire customer data for targeted offers depend on its quality. A two-dimensional Hotelling model is proposed where consumers are heterogeneous both with respect to their locations and transportation cost parameters (flexibility). Firms have perfect data...

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A note on consumer flexibility, data quality and collusion

Hasnas, Irina - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014

In this note we analyze the sustainability of collusion in a game of repeated interaction where firms can price discriminate among consumers based on two types of customer data. This work is related to Liu and Serfes (2007) and Sapi and Suleymanova (2013). Following Sapi and Suleymanova we...

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Targeted pricing and customer data sharing among rivals

Jentzsch, Nicola; Sapi, Geza; Suleymanova, Irina - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2012

It is increasingly observable that competitors in different industries share customer data, which can be used for targeted pricing. We propose a modified Hotelling model with two-dimensional consumer heterogeneity to analyze the incentives for such sharing and its ensuing welfare effects. We...

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Collusion through joint R&D: An empirical assessment

Duso, Tomaso; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Seldeslachts, Jo - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2012

This paper tests whether upstream R&D cooperation leads to downstream collusion. We consider an oligopolistic setting where firms enter in research joint ventures (RJVs) to lower production costs or coordinate on collusion in the product market. We show that a sufficient condition for...

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