Recent research has led to the empirical regularity that rm growth rate distributionsare heavy tailed. This nding implies that a few rms experience spectaculargrowth rates and decline, but that most rms have marginal growth rates. The literatureon high growth rms shows that high growth rms are...

Im Rahmen dieser Studie die vom VDMA Bayern unterstützt wird, wurde derFragestellung der Kooperationen kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU) inNetzwerken, Verbänden, Interessensgemeinschaften oder virtueller Unternehmenhinsichtlich der Umsetzung strategischer Geschäftsideen, wie z.B. der...

Im Rahmen der Controllingstudie, die vom VDMA Bayern unterstützt wird, wurde derFragestellung der Kooperationen kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU) inNetzwerken, Verbänden, Interessensgemeinschaften oder virtueller Unternehmenhinsichtlich der Umsetzung strategischer Geschäftsideen, wie...

This paper shows how this becomes an informational first-mover advantage that turns innovators into the market leader.

This paper shows how a financial institution can profit from the development of financial products even if they are unpatentable.

To reduce the competition from farmers who self-produce seed, an inbred line seed producercan switch to nondurable hybrid seed. In a two-period model we investigate the impactof crop durability on self-production, pricing and switching decisions, and we examine theimpact of license fees paid by...

This paper presents simple conditions for monopoly third-degree price discrimination to have negative or positive e¤ectson aggregate consumer surplus. Consumer surplus is often re-duced by discrimination, for example when total welfare (con-sumer surplus and pro…ts) falls. Surplus increases...

We study product innovation and imitation in the market of corporate underwriting with a dynamic model where client switching costs and the bankers’ expertise in deal structuring characterize the life cycle of a security. While the clientele loyalty allows positive rent extraction, the superior...

Investment banks develop their own innovative derivatives to underwrite corporate issues but they cannot preclude other banks from imitating them. However, during the process of underwriting an innovator can learn more than its imitators about the potential clients. Moving first puts him ahead...

Investment Banks invest in R&D to design innovative securities even when imitation is possible, i.e., when innovations cannot be patented. We show how a financial institution can profit from the development of financial products even if they are unpatentable. For certain types of financial...