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innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with …
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This paper investigates the effect of market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in … increase in labour productivity by 6.5% and an increase in the likelihood of a successful product innovation by about 1 …
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We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction of new goods whose … production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are …
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We study the short- and long-run implications of offshoring on innovation, technology adoption, wage and income …
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This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...
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We study the short- and long-run implications of offshoring on innovation, technology adoption, wage and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950605
We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose … production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … substitution between goods and other parameters. Third, we show that the interplay between innovation and standardization may lead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628444
frontier. In vertically integrated firms, owners (managers) have to spend time both on production and innovation activities …, and this creates managerial overload, and discourages innovation. Outsourcing of some production activities mitigates the … frontier, the value of innovation increases, encouraging outsourcing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123937
This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136707
innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to innovation-based strategy with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088829