panel of consumer preferences and marginal costs based on the estimation of separate random coefficient models by category …

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A growth model is … reduce innovation incentives for laggards. There are four key predictions. First, the relationship between product market … competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape. Second, the equilibrium degree of technological neck-and-neckness' among …

How important is information disclosure through patents for subsequent innovation? Although disclosure is regarded as … the information disclosed in patent prior art plays an important role in supporting cumulative innovation …

in a better position to hire employees that can help with innovation. In contrast, competition in the market for …

of data used in this literature, before turning to a discussion of identification issues and results, and estimation … recent applications dealing with innovation, antitrust and mergers, dynamic pricing, regulation, product repositioning …

There has been a significant interest on a theoretical level in the application of supergames to oligopoly behavior …

This paper extends the static analysis of oligopoly structure into an infinite-horizon setting with sunk costs and …