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Acquisitions versus entry: The evolution of concentration
Aydemir, Zava; Schmutzler, Armin - 2002
that all firms play an oligopoly game. We derive conditions under which increasing market concentration arises with myopic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315536
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Acquisitions versus Entry: The Evolution of Concentration
Aydemir, Zava; Schmutzler, Armin - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2002
that all firms play an oligopoly game. We derive conditions under which increasing market concentration arises with myopic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005756590
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Research joint ventures: The role of financial constraints
Brunner, Philipp; Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin - 2022
resources, increase the variety of pursued projects and thereby increase the probability of discovering the innovation. RJVs … improve innovation outcomes when market competition is weak and external financing conditions are bad. An RJV may increase the … innovation probability and nevertheless lower total R&D costs. RJVs that increase innovation tend to be profitable, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285527
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Research joint ventures: The role of financial constraints
Brunner, Philipp; Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin - 2022
resources, increase the variety of pursued projects and thereby increase the probability of discovering the innovation. RJVs … improve innovation outcomes when market competition is weak and external financing conditions are bad. An RJV may increase the … innovation probability and nevertheless lower total R&D costs. RJVs that increase innovation tend to be profitable, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461491
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Research joint ventures: The role of financial constraints
Brunner, Philipp; Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin - 2023
resources, increase the variety of pursued projects and thereby increase the probability of discovering the innovation. RJVs … improve innovation outcomes when market competition is weak or external financing conditions are bad. An RJV may increase the … innovation probability and nevertheless lower total R&D costs. RJVs that increase innovation also increase consumer surplus and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014333778
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The relation between competition and innovation: Why is it such a mess?
Schmutzler, Armin - 2010
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315513
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Competition and innovation: An experimental investigation
Sacco, Dario; Schmutzler, Armin - 2008
The paper analyzes the effects of more intense competition on firms' incentives to invest in process innovations. We carry out experiments based on two-stage games, where R&D investment choices are followed by product market competition. As predicted by theory, an increase in the number of firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315588
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892456
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Competition and innovation : an experimental investigation
Sacco, Dario; Schmutzler, Armin - 2008
The paper analyzes the effects of more intense competition on firms’ incentives to invest in process innovations. We carry out experiments based on two-stage games, where R&D investment choices are followed by product market competition. As predicted by theory, an increase in the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892458
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Challenging the incumbent: entry in markets with captive consumers and taste heterogeneity
Oertel, Christian; Schmutzler, Armin - 2021
leads to new insights on entry, horizontal product innovation, and price discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520198