Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010
both an engine of growth and a potential barrier to it. As a result, growth is an inverse U-shaped function of the … standardization rate (and of competition). Second, we characterize the growth and welfare maximizing speed of standardization. We show … between innovating and standardizing firms is modelled and on parameter values, a new type of multiplicity of equilibria may …