Anticompetitive mergers increase competitors' profits, since they reduce competition. Using a model of endogenous … mergers, we show that such mergers nevertheless may reduce the competitors' share-prices. Thus, event-studies can not detect … anti-competitive mergers. …

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

surprising intertemporal link: Merger incentives may be reduced by the prospect of additional profitable mergers in the future …. Merger control may help protect competition. Holdup and intertemporal links make policy design more difficult, however. Even …Anticompetitive mergers benefit competitors more than the merging firms. We show that such externalities reduce firms …

Innovation entsteht kein Produkt. Wie sich Unternehmer beim Hervorbringen von Innovationen verhalten, ist aber weitgehend … unbekannt – und damit auch, welches Verhalten sich positiv und welches sich negativ auf eine Innovation auswirkt. Ueber dieses …

Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is … acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate the process of creative destruction by increasing the entrepreneurial effort … that high-quality inventions are sold under bidding competition. Asymmetric information problems are shown to be solved by …

The main section of the paper analyzes the principles and practice of competition policy for utilities under six … headings: price discrimination and cross-subsidy; oligopolistic behaviour; mergers and takeovers; vertical structure; network … access pricing; and historical entry barriers. The conclusion discusses proposals for the reform of competition policy for …