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How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that … not in laggard industries. To explain this pattern, we introduce entry into a Schumpeterian growth model with multiple … rich micro-level productivity growth and patent panel data for the UK, and controlling for the endogeneity of entry by …
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firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that are sufficiently consistent as to … relationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, in fact, not be the same in … services. The results suggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth are …
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When new technologies become available, it is not only essential that firms have the correct investment incentives, but … often also that consumers make the proper usage decisions. This paper studies investment and usage in a shared ATM network …. Because all banks coordinate their ATM investment decisions, there is no strategic but only a pure cost-saving incentive to …
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Using data from a large enterprise-level panel designed to address this issue, we account for enterprise performance in Russia. We link performance to four aspects of the economic environment outlined in the literature: enterprise ownership; corporate governance; market structures and competition;...
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performance through its impact on investment incentives. For this purpose, we study a two-stage game in which firms choose their … investment incentives at the margin are poorer; indeed, under reasonable assumptions on the shape of the demand distribution, the … discriminatory auction induces (weakly) stronger investment incentives than the uniform-price format. …
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This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...
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Understanding the development of chainstores is important given the large GDP share of services and the continuing importance of chains in bringing these services to market. Service chains provide a puzzle because they take a long time to develop even when there are obvious expansion...
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In spatial competition firms are likely to be uncertain about consumer locations when launching products either because of shifting demograph- ics or of asymmetric information about preferences. Realistically distri- butions of consumer locations should be allowed to vary over states and need...
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What is the role of firms and markets in mediating the division of labour? This Paper uses confidential microdata from the Census of Services to examine law firms' boundaries. We first examine how the specialization of lawyers and firms increases as lawyers' returns to specialization increase....
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