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The sale of ideas (e.g. through licensing) facilitates vertical specialization and the division of labor between research and development. This specialization can improve the overall efficiency of the innovative process. However, these gains depend on the timing of the sale: the buyer of an idea...
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Horizontal mergers are usually under the scrutiny of antitrust authorities due to their potential undesirable effects on prices and consumer surplus. Ex-post evidence, however, suggests that not always these effects take place and even relevant mergers may end up having negligible price effects....
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This paper investigates the degree of competition in the WAEMU financial industry over the period 2002-2007 using firm-level data (591 year-firm observations). Market structure analysis, the Panzar-Rosse model and conjectural variation are applied to assess the level of competition. The results...
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We present a Cournot model that compares the critical threshold of collusion in Duopoly and Oligopoly Markets where the actors are private, mixed or public. We assume that the incentive critical threshold for collusion depends on the interconnection fees. The different threshold values...
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information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive … to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …
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En 1883, les brevets accordés en France, en Allemagne, au Royaume-Uni et en Belgique représentent 41% des brevets accordés dans le monde, les brevets américains représentant quant à eux 43% du total. L'Europe du Nord-Ouest s'affiche au XIXe siècle comme un des hauts lieux du brevet...
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This paper examines the relative influence of domestic and foreign renewable energy policies on innovation activity in … new capacities by increasing their innovation effort. However, the effect on innovation of the marginal wind turbine …
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Les systèmes de management des risques doivent situer l'action des gestionnaires dans des environnements turbulents. Ceci place le management des risques sur un plan notamment conceptuel. Or, certains cloisonnements et ruptures artificiels peuvent avoir laissé de coté des concepts pertinents....
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A. Hopwood en Europe. Dans le domaine des systèmes de coûts l'innovation que constitue l'ABC a nourri un intense courant …
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This paper examines the evolution of innovation in nuclear power reactors between 1974 and 2008 in twelve OECD … countries and assesses to what extent nuclear innovation has been driven by economic incentives, political decisions and safety … activity. Our results highlight that nuclear innovation is partly driven by the conventional paradigm where both demandpull …
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