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Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance

Cai, Jing - 2017

We organized business associations for the owner-managers of randomly selected young Chinese firms to study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,800 firms into small groups whose managers held monthly meetings for one year, and into a “no- meetings” control...

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Optimal Regulation with Exemptions

Kaplow, Louis - 2017

basic and ubiquitous features of regulation as actually implemented throughout the world has received little theoretical … because exemption induces additional harmful activity to be channeled their way. This article analyzes optimal regulation with … regulation, which illustrates the contrast with the mechanism design approach that analyzes the optimal use of instruments of a …

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In with the Big, Out with the Small : Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India

Martin, Leslie A. - 2014

An ongoing debate in employment policy is whether promoting small and medium enterprises creates more employment. Do small enterprises generate more employment growth than larger firms? We use the elimination of small-scale industry (SSI) promotion in India to address this question. For 60...

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Syndicated Loan Spreads and the Composition of the Syndicate

Lim, Jongha - 2012

The past decade has seen significant changes in the structure of the corporate lending market, with non-bank institutional investors playing larger roles than they historically have played. These non-bank institutional lenders typically have higher required rates of return than banks, but invest...

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Innovating Standards Through Informal Consortia : The Case of Wireless Telecommunications

Delcamp, Henry - 2014

We empirically examine the effects of industry consortia on the coordination of innovation strategies of the members. Our analyses utilize membership data from 32 consortia in wireless telecommunication technology subfields from 2000 to 2005 and prior art citations in standards-essential...

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Patent Pools and the Direction of Innovation - Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

Lampe, Ryan - 2014

Patent pools allow a group of firms to combine their patents as if they were a single firm. Theoretical models predict that pools encourage innovation in pool technologies, albeit at the cost of innovation in substitutes. Empirical evidence is scarce because modern pools are too recent to allow...

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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

Kerr, William - 2014

We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...

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Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

Lampe, Ryan - 2014

Members of a patent pool agree to use a set of patents as if they were jointly owned by all members and license them as a package to other firms. Regulators favor pools as a means to encourage innovation: Pools are expected to reduce litigation risks for their members and lower license fees and...

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Foreign Corporations and the Culture of Transparency : Evidence from Russian Administrative Data

Braguinsky, Serguey - 2012

Foreign-owned firms from advanced countries carry the culture of transparency in business transactions that is orthogonal to the culture of hiding and insider dealing in many developing economies and economies in transition. In this paper, we document this using administrative data on reported...

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Learning by Drilling : Inter-Firm Learning and Relationship Persistence in the Texas Oilpatch

Kellogg, Ryan - 2010

This paper examines the importance of learning-by-doing that is specific not just to individual firms, but to pairs of firms working together in a contracting relationship. Using new, detailed data from the oil and gas industry, I find that the joint productivity of an oil production company and...

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