, innovation …

interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …In a Cournot oligopoly set up with constant marginal cost and linear demand, innovation is rewarding. In this paper we … work with a Cournot oligopoly framework with increasing marginal cost and linear demand and show that innovation may not be …

We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and … increasing returns in production. Moreover, higher concentration produces a scale effect on firms’ incentives to innovate, which … concentration contributes substantially to the gains from trade, mostly via its stimulating effect on innovation. Sizeable gains …

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how … expensive and innovation investments that increase labor productivity are more profitable. We incorporate this channel in a new …

Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for …

examine whether information on the offered incentives improves reports about a known objective prior. We find that transparent … information on incentives gives rise to error rates in excess of 40 percent, and that only 15 percent of participants consistently … report the truth. False reports are conservative and appear to result from a biased perception of the BSR incentives. While …

We use two randomized controlled trials in Bangladesh to study a simple water conservation technology for rice … irrigation water. This low-cost, scalable intervention causes farmers to place more value on the water-saving technology. Demand … for the technology becomes less price-sensitive …

This paper quantifies a tenant-side "split incentives" problem that exists when the largest commercial sector customers … previous split incentives papers, and is robust when exposed to several opportunities to fail. The electricity reduction in …