Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this … product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding … with step-by-step innovation models predicting that product market competition enhances innovation and, more importantly …

Since the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act (1897) and the Sherman Act (1890), regulation and antitrust have … operated as competing mechanisms to control competition. Regulation produced cross-subsidies and favors to special interests …, but specified prices and rules of mandatory dealing. Antitrust promoted competition without favoring special interests …

competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since …Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national … their antitrust laws. The deregulation race results in a chain of Stackelberg leadership positions taken over by national …

valued? We provide a general theory of optimal technology regulation in a second best world, with rich heterogeneity across …

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million …-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …

Regulation (GDPR). The opt-in requirement of GDPR resulted in 12.5% drop in the intermediary-observed consumers, but the …

competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate preferential arrangements with smaller countries or regions will lower …