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Innovation, R&D and productivity in the Costa Rican ICT sector : a case study

Monge González, Ricardo; Hewitt, John - 2010

This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …

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The relation between competition and innovation : why is it such a mess?

Schmutzler, Armin - 2010 - Revised version

Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition....

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Per unit and ad valorem : royalties in a patent licensing game

Montinaro, Marta; Pal, Rupayan; Scimitore, Marcella - 2020

In a context of product innovation, we study two-part tariff licensing between a patentee and a potential rival which …

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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa

Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2010

In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it...

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The interaction of economic and political inequality in Latin America

Fergusson, Leopoldo; Robinson, James A.; Torres, Santiago - 2024

We investigate how economic inequality can persist in Latin America in the context of radical falls in political inequality in the last decades. Using data from Colombia, we focus on a critical facet of democratization - the entry of new politicians. We show that initial levels of inequality...

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Industrial Economics in Scandinavia: 1880-1980

Foss, Nicolai J.; Møllgaard, Peter - 2004

Based on diverse research methods, we trace and map industrial economics research in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the periode of 1880 to 1908. After describing this research in terms of key contributors, we argue that industrial economics developed rather unevenly in the Scandinavian countries....

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Spying in multi-market oligopolies

Billand, Pascal; Bravard, Christophe; Chakrabarti, Subhadip - 2010

We consider a multimarket framework where a set of firms compete on two interrelated oligopolistic markets. Prior to competing in these markets, firms can spy on others in order to increase the quality of their product. We characterize the equilibrium espionage networks and networks that...

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Civic capital and the size distribution of plants : short-run dynamics and long-run equilibrium

Bürker, Matthias; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2012

We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...

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The distribution of talent across contests

Azmat, Ghazala; Möller, Marc - 2016

Do the contests with the largest prizes attract the most-able contestants? To what extent do contestants avoid competition? In this paper, we show, theoretically and empirically, that the distribution of abilities plays a crucial role in determining contest choice. Complete sorting exists only...

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Intimidating competitors : endogenous vertical integration and downstream investment in successive oligopoly

Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2004 - July 2004, revised July 2005

We examine the interplay of endogenous vertical integration and costreducing downstream investment in successive oligopoly. We start from a linear Cournot model to motivate our more general reducedform framework. For this general framework, we establish the following main results: First,...

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