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Levy, Stephan M. - EconWPA - 1995

This essay explores why firms would want to practice vaporware -- the issuance of intentionally false product announcements. In my model, a firm is able to release an upgraded version of its original product. However, consumers do not know the date at which the upgrade will first become...

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Competition and Innovation - Microeconometric Evidence Using Finnish Data

Kilponen, Juha; Santavirta, Torsten - EconWPA - 2005

In this study we provide a theoretical prediction of a complementary relationship between the incentive effects of product market competition and R&D subsidies using the theory of Aghion et. al (1997, 2001). The complementarity relationship and that of an inverted U-relationship is then tested...

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Payment systems efficiency, policy approaches, and the role of the central bank

Khiaonarong, Tanai - EconWPA - 2004

payments system. And third, regulatory and financial innovations, in addition to technological means, are found to be equally …

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INOVATIONS - ENTREPRENEURSHIP - CREDIT in the Theory of J.A. Schumpeter

Kyn, Oldrich - EconWPA - 2005

Short explanation of Schumpeter's concepts of dynamics, innovations and entrepreneurship. It is argued, that …

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Understanding Patents: The Role of R&D Funding Sources and the Patent Office

Sanyal, Paroma - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes the effects of different sources of R&D funding and patent office attributes on the patenting process. Another important contribution is modeling the effect of a random delay in the ‘pendency’ time as a stochastic process and quantifying its effect on patenting. The...

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Free-Agency and the Competitiveness of Major-League Baseball

II, Craig A. Depken - EconWPA - 1996

I investigate whether the removal of the reserve clause in professional baseball has affected the competitive nature of the industry in the context of whether teams are actively attempting to monopolize in high- valued inputs. It is possible that a very few teams could purchase all of the best...

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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs

RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005

This paper aims at analysing the relation between competitiveness and economic growth for the period 1995-2000 (2002 … particular relation between the different patterns of competitiveness and regional economic growth. …

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Growth patterns and economic performance of french manufacturing firms

Paranque, Bernard - EconWPA - 1995

depend to a large extent on the ability of companies to exploit their competitiveness, which is dependent on the decisions … investment, decisions. It is first of all necessary to define competitiveness and to suggest a measurement indicator suited to … aggregated accounting data. The link between competitiveness and profitability will be specified and the diversity of the …

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Economic Integration and Trade Competitiveness in Latin America

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2004

There are large differences in gross domestic products by sectors among Latin American countries, and the majority of these differences are due to the value of industrial and service sectors. The structural reforms in countries of Latin America has broadly focused in the five major areas...

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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs

RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005

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