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with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … model in which the covariates include firm strategies (innovation and environmental), and a set of other explanatory … negative impact from environmental innovation strategy, implying either a short-medium effect, possibly balanced in the long …
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Overconfidence is a well-established behavioral phenomenon that involves an overestimation of own capabilities. We introduce a model, in which managers and agents exert effort in a joint production, after the manager decides on the allocation of the tasks. A rational manager tends to delegate...
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developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade … environment, the South sets its IPR policy strategically to manipulate multinationals' decisions on innovation and location. Firms … stimulates innovation by pushing multinationals to deter entry in high-technology sectors. …
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This paper studies the consequences of parallel import (PI) on process innovation of firms heterogeneous in their …. The impact of PI on innovation is determined by the degree of heterogeneity between firms and trade costs. Increasing … market, hence increases its innovation efforts. A tariff policy accompanied by opening borders to PI only increases welfare …
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We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We disentangle between tfp and technology adoption, while available studies so far have considered only a notion of productivity conflating the two effects. To this aim, we estimate...
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Over the last two decades privatization programs in different countries radically reduced the role of the State as a key player in the economic arena. We use agency theory to discuss the theoretical relationship between changes in the firm's principal-agent structure following privatization, and...
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This paper tests whether upstream R&D cooperation leads to downstream collusion. We consider an oligopolistic setting where firms enter in research joint ventures (RJVs) to lower production costs or coordinate on collusion in the product market. We show that a sufficient condition for...
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We consider procurement of an innovation from heterogeneous sellers. Innovations are random but depend on unobservable … admission to an innovation contest. After the contest, an innovation is procured employing either a fixed prize or a first …
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An innovative firm with private information about its indivisible process innovation chooses strategically whether to … the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market. A Cournot competitor tends to patent big … substitutability increases the incentives to patent the innovation. …
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cases policy should favour R&D by incumbents, not outsiders, and that stronger patent protection may reduce innovation and …
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