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Buyer Power and Innovation of Quality Products: Empirical Evidence from the German Food Sector.

Weiss, Christoph R.; Wittkopp, Antje - 2003

The last couple of decades have seen an increased retail concentration around the world, particularly in Europe. Views on the welfare implications of this severe change are controversial. Consumers might benefit because larger stores (owned by larger retailer chains) offer more product choices....

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Explaining export success in the UK and German medical equipment industry

Anderton, Bob; Schultz, Siegfried - 1999

This paper aims to provide understanding of the relative trade performances and technological competitiveness, with particular emphasis on product quality, innovation and skills. The firm-level case studies support the conclusions arising from the aggregate analysis. Germany spends more on...

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Minimum quality standards and novelty requirements in a one-shot development race

Prokop, Jacek; Regibeau, Pierre; Rockett, Katharine - 2009

The authors examine the timing and quality of product introduction in an R&D stopping game, where they allow for horizontal and vertical differentiation in the product market. They observe that discontinuous changes in introduction dates can occur as firms' abilities as researchers change....

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Minimum quality standards and novelty requirements in a one-short development race

Prokop, Jacek; Regibeau, Pierre; Rockett, Katharine - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-15, pp. 1-49

We examine the timing and quality of product introduction in an R&D stopping game, where we allow for horizontal and vertical differentiation in the product market. We observe that discontinuous changes in introduction dates can occur as firms' abilities as researchers change. Further, when the...

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Die Signalwirkung des Vorankündigungsaufwandes und von Patentinformationen in kundenorientierten Produkt-Vorankündigungen

Ernst, Holger; Schnoor, Anje - 1999

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Education, Income Distribution and Innovation

Shen, Ling - 2004

In this paper we study the impact of the income distribution on innovation through the demand for quality goods. For simplicity, we assume that there are two types of consumers, rich and poor. The income distribution is measured by the population share of the poor and the relative income of the...

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Exploration and exploitation: the role of entrepreneurship and R&D in the process of innovation

Keilbach, Max; Sanders, Mark - 2007

We formulate a model that explicitly separates two functions in the innovation process: The introduction of new goods and the quality improvement of existing goods. While the latter is performed by the corporate R&D sector, the first is performed by entrepreneurs. We show that in a three sector...

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Heterogeneous consumers, vertical product differentiation and the rate of innovation

Zweimüller, Josef; Brunner, Johannes K. - 1996

consumers - rich, middle class and poor. In general, we find that for reasons of strategic price setting a more equal …

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The Design of Permit Schemes and Environmental Innovation

Perino, Grischa - 2008

Most real world emission permit schemes are in effect hybrid instruments that feature both quantity and price controls …. While the effects of price bounds are well understood for issues such as uncertain abatement costs it has not been … analyzes these issues for two types of innovation. While price bounds increase static efficiency they reduce incentives to …

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Technological Progress and Market Growth : An Empirical Study Based on the Quality-Ladder Approach

Grupp, Hariolf; Stadler, Manfred - 2004

This paper develops an extended version of the quality-ladder model by allowing for heterogeneous markets. Based on this model, it presents an empirical analysis of innovation-based growth at the market level using a technometric measurement concept. It can be shown that a growth-promoting...

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