Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …

for around 17% of the total increase in the top 1% income share between 1975 and 2010. Yet, innovation does not appear to … increase other measures of inequality which do not focus on top incomes. Next, we show that the positive effects of innovation … vindicate the Schumpeterian view whereby the rise in top income shares is partly related to innovation-led growth, where …

paper, we address this question by investigating how innovation responses to a substantial policy initiative increasing … product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding … with step-by-step innovation models predicting that product market competition enhances innovation and, more importantly …