Showing 1 - 10 of 960
This Paper analyses the impact of R&D subsidies on incumbent firms to introduce new goods. We are especially interested … in investigating various consequences of government subsidies for R&D, provided to firms that offer products of different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504784
Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer --- the seller --- follows from a non--trivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer--induced certification acts as an inspection device, whence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854541
attempting to minimize subsidies to banks' equityholders. When banks do not diffr with respect to the extent of debt overhang, it … can be fully overcome with the minimal amount of subsidies, providing each bank's equity holders no more than their pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550316
clauses would reduce such excessive, signaling-driven investment and patenting intensity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643508
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 … limits on product market competition or investment subsidies, which encourage the investment-based strategy may be beneficial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789082
quickly. Also, the approval delay is likely to decrease as an industry moves from the early stages of an innovation cycle to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661945
This Paper studies the criteria with which the presence or absence of ‘subsidy’ in sales contingent Launch Aid R&D support may be determined when payoff-relevant market incompleteness limits the precision of market-based pricing to non-trivial intervals. The criteria currently employed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136724
government's budget, especially the roles played by taxes and subsidies. This paper reviews the Hungarian fiscal situation in … taxation and the various forms of subsidy and social welfare provision. Despite the removal of many former subsidies, the paper … finds that many implicit and unjustified subsidies remain, and they continue to distort resource allocation in undesirable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136594
We develop a general equilibrium model that jointly considers the influence of capital accumulation constraints and of labour market frictions on the process of transition. We endogenize the economic and budgetary costs of different government policies and show that, early in transition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504399
competition, Bertrand and Cournot oligopoly) international competition forces the national government to subsidize innovation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666416