quality - but also with more competition among suppliers. Both associations hold only for parts involving comparatively … relationships involving higher trust, buyers are able to induce higher investment and more intense competition among suppliers - but …

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as … but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand competition. More specifically, Cournot competition can lead to earlier … adoption than Bertrand competition. It shows also that competition toughness does not always reinforce adoption incentives …

equilibrium unemployment. The relationship between the long-run unemployment and the intensity of product market competition is …

Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … this an interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over … patenting, and the relationship is reasonably non-linear; (2) higher market-wide competition results in an increase in patenting …

is found that patents ought to be weaker, the more intense competition, the higher R&D productivity, and the more … competition and introduces an empirically substantiated measure of sector differences in the ability to catch up with the …

&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …

Empirical studies have uncovered an inverted-U relationship between product-market competition and innovation. This is … inconsistent with the original Schumpeterian Model, where greater competition reduces the profitability of innovation. We show that … the model can predict the inverted-U if the innovators’ talent is heterogenous, and privately observable. With competition …