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Do firms seek to make the market transparent,or do they confuse the consumers in their product perceptions? We show that the answer to this question depends decisively on preference heterogeneity. Contrary to the well-studied case of homogeneous goods, confusion is not necessarily an equilibrium...
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This paper analyzes the design of innovation contests when the quality of an innovation depends on the research …
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This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We show that … prohibiting killer acquisitions strictly reduces the variety of innovation projects. By contrast, we find that prohibiting other … acquisitions only has a weakly negative innovation effect, and we provide conditions under which the effect is zero. Furthermore …
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resources, increase the variety of pursued projects and thereby increase the probability of discovering the innovation. RJVs … improve innovation outcomes when market competition is weak and external financing conditions are bad. An RJV may increase the … innovation probability and nevertheless lower total R&D costs. RJVs that increase innovation tend to be profitable, but …
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This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups which serves as a … foundation for the analysis of acquisition policy. We show that prohibiting acquisitions has a weakly negative innovation effect …
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resources, increase the variety of pursued projects and thereby increase the probability of discovering the innovation. RJVs … improve innovation outcomes when market competition is weak or external financing conditions are bad. An RJV may increase the … innovation probability and nevertheless lower total R&D costs. RJVs that increase innovation also increase consumer surplus and …
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This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups which serves as a …, prohibiting acquisitions has a weakly negative overall innovation effect. We provide conditions determining the size of the effect …
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This paper analyzes the design of innovation contests when the quality of an innovation depends on the research …
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Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition....
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knowledge generated and obtained abroad flows back to the domestic country. Third, the potential of R&D offshoring makes FDI …
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