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Patents to products : product innovation and firm dynamics

Argente, David; Baslandze, Salomé; Hanley, Douglas; … - 2020

We study the relationship between patents and actual product innovation in the market, and how this relationship varies … consumer goods sector. We find that patent filings are positively associated with subsequent product innovation by firms, but … at least half of product innovation and growth comes from firms that never patent. We also find that market leaders use …

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Pandemic-Era Uncertainty on Main Street and Wall Street

Meyer, Brent; Mihaylov, Emil; Davis, Steven J.; Parker, … - 2021

We draw on the monthly Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) to make three observations about pandemic-era uncertainty in the U.S. economy. First, equity market traders and executives of nonfinancial firms share similar assessments about uncertainty at one-year lookahead horizons. That is, the...

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Surveying Business Uncertainty

Altig, David - 2020

We develop a new monthly panel survey of business executives and a new question design that elicits subjective probability distributions over own-firm outcomes at a one-year lookahead horizon. Our Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) began in 2014 and now covers 1,500 firms drawn from all 50...

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