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existing sales from future challengers. In this fundamental way, competition promotes innovation. We apply this basic insight … internalizes business-stealing effects arising from their parallel innovation efforts and thus tends to depress innovation … of R&D, may offset the adverse effect of a merger on innovation. We describe the possible effects of a merger on …
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We study the effects of antitrust policy in industries with continual innovation. A more protective antitrust policy … may have conflicting effects on innovation incentives, raising the profits of new entrants, but lowering those of … continuing incumbents. We show that the direction of the net effect can be determined by analyzing shifts in innovation benefit …
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A central debate in economics concerns the relationship between competition and innovation, with some stressing that … competition discourages innovation by reducing post-innovation rents and others emphasizing that more contestable markets spur … currently dominant and other firms to invest more in innovation. We examine the impact of competition laws on innovation. We …
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" about future performance and standard measures of corporate innovation. We begin by developing a career concern model where … probability of failure, are more likely to pursue innovation, and that this effect is larger in more competitive industries. We …
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policy, due to their potential to foreclose competition and affect innovation incentives. We exploit major new product …
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Canadian firms adjusts innovation activities, business strategies, and exit in response to large increases in Chinese imports … between 1999 and 2005. On average, process innovation declines more strongly than product innovation. In addition, initially …
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, internal firm organization, performance and innovation, which is representative of the entire Canadian economy. Our empirical … particularly striking for innovation, as firms with some priority in business strategies are significantly more likely to innovate …
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This paper draws on a detailed history of Intel's strategy with respect to the complementary markets for microprocessors to explore the usefulness of the current theoretical literature for explaining behavior. We find that as the literature predicts, Intel invests heavily in these markets, both...
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of innovation, our results suggest that innovation in the tech sector has been more rapid than the rate that would be … of innovation in high-tech sectors has been more rapid than indicated by official statistics, then it is perhaps even …
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in the European Union in May 2018. We study its short-run impact on investment in new and emerging technology firms. Our findings indicate negative post-GDPR effects on EU ventures, relative to their US counterparts. The negative...
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