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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2011
-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale … to an incumbent firm) are endogenous. We show that government programs to support small businesses foster market entry by …
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Competition, imitation, and R&D productivity in a growth model with sector-specific patent protection
Mosel, Malte - 2010
intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model assumes Cournot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270491
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Creative destruction and productive preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2013
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are … are shown to be solved by verification through entry for sale. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291511
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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264224
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Heavyweights - the impact of large businesses on productivity growth
Falck, Oliver - 2007
The idea of an industrial policy that promotes large businesses - heavyweights - as the best way to compete in a globalized world has become, again, en vogue among European politicians. The only apparent controversy about the idea revolves around whether it is better to promote national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264240
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Redistribution and occupational choice in a Schumpeterian growth model
Garcίa-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Wen, Jean-François - 2004
We consider an R&D-driven endogenous growth model in which innovation is risky and agents are risk averse. Growth is … social insurance, thus encouraging innovation and accelerating growth. The general equilibrium effects of the reallocation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273729
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Endogenous product versus process innovation and a firm's propensity to export
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter - 2007
at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and … Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing a firm's market position given the characteristics of its product supply …. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264061
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...
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Market structure and market access
Francois, Joseph; Wooton, Ian - 2008
We examine the interaction between goods trade and market power in domestic trade and distribution sectors. Theory suggests a set of linkages between service-sector competition and goods trade supported by econometrics involving imports of 22 OECD countries vis-à-vis 69 exporters. Competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264318
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Fiscal policy, monopolistic competition, and finite lives
Heijdra, Ben J.; Ligthart, Jenny E. - 2006
The paper studies the short-run, transitional, and long-run output effects of permanent and temporary shocks in public consumption under various financing methods. To this end, a dynamic macroeconomic model for a closed economy is developed, which features a perfectly competitive final goods...
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