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Learning by Doing in a Multi-Product Manufacturing Environment : Product Variety, Customizations, and Overlapping Product Generations

Egelman, Carolyn D. - 2015

Extending research on organizational learning to multi-product environments is of particular importance given that the vast majority of products are manufactured in such environments. We investigate learning in a multi-product facility drawing on exceptionally rich data for a manufacturing firm...

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Market Structure and Innovation : A Dynamic Analysis of the Global Automobile Industry

Hashmi, Aamir Rafique - 2010

We study the relationship between market structure and innovation in the global automobile industry from 1982 to 2004 … using the dynamic industry framework of Ericson and Pakes (1995). Firms optimally choose a continuous level of innovation in … parameter -- the cost of innovation. In terms of the relationship between market structure and innovation, we find that: (1) At …

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe - 2014

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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Environmental Preferences and Technological Choices : Is Market Competition Clean or Dirty?

Aghion, Philippe; Bénabou, Roland; Martin, Ralf; … - 2022

' decisions whether to innovate “clean” or “dirty”. We first develop a step-by-step innovation model to capture the basic … green innovation as major increase in fuel prices …

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Innovation Network

Acemoglu, Daron - 2016

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

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Kill Zone

Kamepalli, Sai Krishna; Rajan, Raghuram Govind; … - 2022

We study why acquisitions of entrant firms by an incumbent can deter innovation and entry in the digital platform …

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Moore's Law and Learning-by-Doing

Jovanovic, Boyan; Rousseau, Peter L. - 2015

We model Moore's Law as efficiency of computer producers that rises as a by-product of their experience. We find that (1) Because computer prices fall much faster than the prices of electricity-driven and diesel-driven capital ever did, growth in the coming decades should be very fast, and that...

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Subsidizing Fuel Efficient Cars : Evidence from China's Automobile Industry

Chen, Chia-Wen - 2017

The Chinese automobile market is the largest in the world with annual sales exceeding 20 million vehicles. The tremendous growth in sales---over 200 percent from 2008 to 2015---and concerns over local air quality have prompted China's policy makers to incentivize the adoption of more fuel...

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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels

Kaiser, William - 2014

In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...

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The Extent and Sources of Cost and Efficiency Differences between U.S. And Japanese Automobile Producers

Fuss, Melvyn; Waverman, Leonard - 2021

In this paper we present for the first time estimates of cost and efficiency differences between U.S. and Japanese producers based on an econometric cost function methodology rather than the accounting frameworks previously used. We demonstrate that the cost difference estimates for 1979 which...

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