This paper analyses simultaneous regulation of cost and quality when firms have private, correlated information about … productivity and the regulator receives a signal about quality. It is shown that managerial effort and expenditures on quality are … positively correlated in the optimal contract. The higher is firm productivity the more should the firm spend on quality …

providers of contents incentives to invest in higher quality and, as a result, force competitors to reduce their prices …

indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for …

if there are any third factors (quality of the patent) that affect the commercialization and renewal decisions. Using a … renewed, but also that quality influences commercialization and renewal decisions. When controlling for endogenous … the quality of the patent, if the owner decides to commercialize the patent on the margin, this leads to longer survival …

that an invention of higher quality is more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market … destruction by increasing the entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using detailed data on patents … granted to small firms and individuals, we find evidence that high-quality inventions are often sold, and that they are sold …