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We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and … concentration contributes substantially to the gains from trade, mostly via its stimulating effect on innovation. Sizeable gains …
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countries can simultaneously use patent boxes and R&D subsidies to promote innovation. We show that when countries set their tax … policies unilaterally, innovation is fostered, at the margin, only by the R&D subsidy. The patent box tax rate is instead …
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We introduce a model of product development in a firm. Our model describes the process as a multi-stage contest (i.e., race) with an endogenous length (with one stage or two stages) between two workers. We model the payments to workers from the new product using the normatively appealing Nash...
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supports innovation activities, especially early in the life cycle of firms …
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emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U ….S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …
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This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data … set of German manufacturing firms covers more than 20 years and allows us to use various innovation measures. We can … distinguish between product and process innovations as well as between innovation inputs and innovation outputs. Using dynamic …
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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 … interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …
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We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
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that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … embedded in talented immigrants targeted for innovation. Empirical verification using a VAR regression model in the context of … immigration facilitates innovation with favorable impact on reducing wage-gap …
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Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of “innovating-bydoing,” whereby ideas come … to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners’ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model … program onmedical equipment innovation. Our model’s structure allows us to infer the Medicare program’saggregate effects. We …
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