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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 …

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Institution-Driven Comparative Advantage and Organizational Choice

Ferguson, Shon; Formai, Sara - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

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 contract … contract-intense goods are more muted in industries that have a greater propensity towards vertical integration arrangements …

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Reciprocal Dumping with Bertrand Competition

Friberg, Richard; Ganslandt, Mattias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

This paper examines if international trade can reduce total welfare in an international oligopoly with differentiated goods. We show that welfare is a U-shaped function in the transport cost as long as trade occurs in equilibrium. With a Cournot duopoly trade can reduce welfare compared to...

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Product Differentiation and the Sustainability of Collusion

Häckner, Jonas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992

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Entry Regulations, Product Differentiation and Determinants of Market Structure

Maican, Florin; Orth, ´Matilda - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit to evaluate how entry regulations affect profitability and market structure in retail. The model incorporates demand and store-level heterogeneity. Based on unique data for all retail food stores in Sweden, we find that the average entry costs...

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The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies

Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

State subsidies to R & D or innovative investments in firms are organized in many different ways. Examples from the plethora of extant subsidy instruments are tax incentives, grants to researchers, project grants, loans, conditional loans, and grants with royalty rights. Very little is currently...

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The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies

Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-Tech Industries?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...

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Patent Scope and Technology Choice

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent’s profit increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …

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Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Taxation

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

entrepreneurial effort, entrepre-neurial innovation and capital investment. Because of these constraints, the entrepreneurial project …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082489