The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market … structure is rare. The 1952 breakup of Germany's leading chemical company, IG Farben, represents such a disruption. After the … Second World War, the Allies occupying Germany imposed the breakup because of IG Farben's importance for the German war …

.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

of enforcement activity by European competition authorities in labor markets relative to the US. While enforcement action … competition enforcement in labor markets. The article identifies sectors and practices that may be scrutinized with priority by … European competition authorities and proposes a mix of enforcement, merger control and well-targeted policy and regulatory …

innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany - for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime - to investigate the … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …

generalists and specialists to possess skill variety. Third, we test our model empirically using data from Germany and the … that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …