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framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …
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We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
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This study investigates whether institutional bond blockholders (i.e., bond funds that hold more than 5% of a firm’s outstanding bonds) impede firm innovative activities, and if they do, through which channels. We find that long-term bond blockholders do not discourage firms from conducting...
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Economic interest in innovation policy largely arises from the fundamental importance of innovation to social welfare … and from inefficiencies in innovation in a competitive market environment. As a result, a wide variety of public … innovation policies are used in practice. This study reviews the economic justifications for public innovation policies and …
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The innovation activities of companies has long been a topic of interest in economics. Game theory models of oligopoly … have since the start of the 1980s played a central role in the economics of innovation. In this study three game theory … model is used to study patenting decisions by a company that has made an innovation. A company can monopolize its innovation …
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. The main contribution of this paper is to model the innovation channel of finance explicitly. The paper focuses … particularly on the interaction term between the measure of own innovation and financial development. As countries approach the … technological frontier, own innovation becomes more important to sustain a high growth rate. An adequate level of financial …
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We show theoretically that a proportional R&D subsidy accelerates innovation activity at all degrees of competition in … inverted U-shape between competition and innovation. Secondly, we find some evidence that a direct R&D subsidy increases …
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European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor market insurance...
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We study the value of innovation in a case study of one of the most visible innovative products in recent years, Apple …
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We study whether and to what extent financial exchange innovations are in practice patentable in Europe. We find that exchange-related applications initially increased significantly after the State Street decision but subsequently decreased. The clear majority (65%) of applications come from the...
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