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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
the bidding competition for the innovation and by increasing the relative profitability of being the most efficient firm … innovation for sale, relative to innovation for entry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419538
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Endogenous Mergers in Concentrated Markets.
Horn, H.; Persson, L. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
This paper proposes an approach for prediction the pattern of mergers when different mergers are feasible. It generalizes the traditional IO approach, employing ideas on coalition-formation from cooperative gave theory. The model suggests that in concentrated markets, mergers are conductive to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670123
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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs’ choice of riskiness of an innovation … project and on their mode of commercializing the innovation (market entry versus sale). Limited loss offset provisions in the … fundamental policy trade-off between the declared goals of promoting employment and innovation in small, entrepreneurial firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399312
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Cost Reducing Innovations and Endogenous Spillovers
Nyberg, Sten - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1991
No abstract.
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Schumpeterian Innovation, Market Structure and the Stability of Industrial Development
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684524
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Institution-Driven Comparative Advantage, Complex Goods and Organizational Choice
Ferguson, Shon; Formai, Sara - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
The theory of the firm suggests that firms can respond to poor contract enforcement by vertically integrating their production process. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether firms' integration opportunities affect the way institutions determine international trade patterns. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251249
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On the Internationalization of Corporate Boards
Oxelheim, Lars; Gregori, Aleksandra; Randøy, Trond; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
Despite the global reach of their commercial activities, many multinational firms have proved slow in internationalizing their boards of directors. Based on a panel study of the internationalization of the boards of 347 non-financial firms from the Nordic countries, we find a higher fraction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818485
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The Equilibrium Ownership of an International Oligopoly.
Horn, H.; Persson, L. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is the dominant form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), but has received but scarce attention in the theory literature on trade and investment. This paper highlights how the international pattern of ownership of productive assets may depend on features of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639315
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Why Mergers Reduce Profits, and Raise Share Prices.
Fridolfsson, S.-O.; Stennek, J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
We demonstrate a "preemptive merger mechanism" which may explain the empirical puzzle why mergers reduce profits, and raise share prices. A merger may confer strong negative externalities on the firms outside the merger. If being an "insider" is better than being an "outsider", firms may merge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486503
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Why Mergers Reduce Profits, and Raise Share Prices
Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Stennek, Johan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
We demonstrate a "preemptive merger mechanism" which may explain the empirical puzzle why mergers reduce profits, and raise share prices. A merger may confer strong negative externalilties on the firms outside the merger. If being an "insider" is better than being an "outsider", firms may merge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419544