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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275011
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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265992
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Cutting too close? Design protection and innovation in fashion goods
Hackett, Petal Jean - 2012
Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280833
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Welfare-Enhancing Trade Unions in an Oligopoly with Excessive Entry
de Pinto, Marco - 2019
Trade unions are often argued to cause allocative inefficiencies and to lower welfare. We analyze whether this evaluation is also justified in a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry. If input markets are competitive and output per firm declines with the number of firms (business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866378
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Anti-competitive conduct, in-house R&D, and growth
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - 2007
Incumbent firms have two basic possibilities to improve their competitive position in the product market: investment in R&D and the creation of entry barriers to the disadvantage of potential rivals, e.g. through lobbying activities, campaign contributions, bribes or the adoption of incompatible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264105
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Tax Evasion and Competition
Goerke, Laszlo; Runkel, Marco - 2021
Using a Cournot oligopoly model with an endogenous number of firms and evasion of indirect taxes, this paper shows that more intense competition may have the negative side-effect of eroding tax revenues by increasing tax evasion. This will be the case if market entry costs decrease. A similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316822
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Competition and Innovation in Automobile Markets
Ghosal, Vivek; Ni, Jiayao - 2015
Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the U.S. market … this an interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388173
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Growth and the Geography of Knowledge
Aloi, Marta; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tournemaine, Frederic - 2018
We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815844
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Universal Intellectual Property Rights: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara; Paillacar, Rodrigo - 2013
own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small … enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A …
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Patent Boxes Design, Patents Location and Local R&D
Alstadsæter, Annette; Barrios, Salvador; Nicodème, … - 2015
Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for the period 2000-2011 for the top 2,000 corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide to consider the determinants of patent registration across a large sample of...
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