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We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...
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An inventor can invest research effort to come up with an innovation. Once an innovation is made, a contract is …
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dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both .carbon taxes. and research subsidies, so that excessive … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …
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An upstream firm can license its innovation to downstream firms that have to exert further development effort. There …
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We show that when the researcher’s (observable but not contractible) contribution to innovation is crucial, a covenant …
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paper, we analyze a two-stage innovation game between one incumbent and a large number of entrants. In the first stage … innovation. In the second stage, successful entrants bid to be acquired by the incumbent. We assume that entrants cannot survive …&D approaches than the incumbent and are more likely to generate the highest value innovation. Thus, the need of entrants to be …
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“cutthroat”capitalism that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …
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innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with …
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environmental regulations can spur more rapid innovation. I present a general framework for the analysis of these questions. I …
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We study a two-period moral hazard problem with risk-neutral and wealth-constrained agents and three identical tasks. We show that the allocation of tasks over time is important if there is a capacity constraint on the number of tasks that can be performed in one period. We characterize the...
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