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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure
Ghosh, Arghya (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor);  … - 2007
pressure ; continuous improvement ; discrete innovation ; field research ; location model ; product substitutability ; small …Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental …
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Machiavelli versus concave utility functions : should bads be spread out or concentrated?
Frijters, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Ulker, Aydogan - 2020
economic presumption of concave utility rather than Machiavelli's prescript of inflicting all injuries at once. Yet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180363
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Defensive Innovations
Koeniger, Winfried - 2002
Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...
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Are intellectual property rights fair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415064
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Employment protection, product market competition and growth
Koeniger, Winfried - 2002
It is commonly argued that labor market institutions such as employment protection worsen an economy's performance and particularly so, if product markets become more competitive. Empirical evidence, however, has difficulties to detect a robust negative correlation between employment protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412718
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Initial luck, status-seeking and snowballs lead to corporate success and failure
Glazer, Amihai (contributor); Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor) - 2004
Corporate success often resembles a snowball. We show how initial luck in hiring talented people, the resulting technological advantage, superior corporate culture, and status-seeking by workers can make small initial differences generate large differences over time.
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Collective dismissal cost, product market competition and innovation
Koeniger, Winfried (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Public goods, transferable utility and divorce laws
Chiappori, Pierre-André (contributor);  … - 2007
, utility must be transferable both within marriage and upon divorce, and the marginal rate of substitution between public and …
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Household search or individual search: does it matter? : evidence from lifetime inequality estimates
Flabbi, Luca; Mabli, James - 2012
individual search specification implies gender differentials in lifetime utility inequality 74% larger. The results of our policy … experiments emphasize the importance of looking at lifetime utility inequality measures as opposed to simply cross-sectional wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629634
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Stochastic choice and consideration sets
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2012
. -- discrete choice ; random utility ; logit model ; consideration sets ; bounded rationality ; revealed preferences …
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