-local firms. They therefore mostly buy locally, limiting firms' potential market size (and competition). We explore this …

concerned with the supply of human capital to entrepreneurship and innovation …

interplay of these two localized externalities and their impact on regional innovation. We examine MSA-level patent data during … the period 1975-2000 and find that innovation output is higher where large and small labs coexist. The finding is robust …

This paper builds a model of stock exchange competition tailored to the institutional and regulatory details of the …-frequency trading. The robust conclusion is that private innovation incentives are much smaller than the social incentives, especially …

Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received … effects of competition on individuals' creative production. Using a sample of commercial logo design competitions, and a novel …, content-based measure of originality, I find that intensifying competition induces agents to produce original, untested ideas …

We study why high-priced acquisitions of entrants by an incumbent do not necessarily stimulate more innovation and …

innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of … from China impact U.S. innovation through the markets for innovation and existing products. We identify shocks to … rate, consistent with increased intellectual property competition …