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Voluntary approaches, market structure and competition
Brau, Rinaldo; Carraro, Carlo - 1999
This paper surveys the recent literature devoted to the analysis of the interactions between the adoption of voluntary or negotiated agreements as a tool of environmental policy and market structure. The goal of this survey is twofold. On the one hand, we would like to identify the market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608517
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Globalization and Multiproduct Firms
Nocke, Volker; Yeaple, Stephen - 2013
. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333860
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Productivity, welfare and reallocation: theory and firm-level evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009
values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269431
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A general model of technical change with an application to the OECD countries
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2011
In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280731
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Competition, innovation, and the effect of knowledge accumulation
Steinmetz, Alexander - 2010
, the leader's R&D effort increases with the gap as she is trying to avoid competition in the future. When firms gain … causes an equilibrium where the incentives to innovate are highest when competition is most intense. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300837
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Competition, imitation, and R&D productivity in agrowth model with sector-specific patent protection
Mosel, Malte - 2009
is found that patents ought to be weaker, the more intense competition, the higher R&D productivity, and the more … competition and introduces an empirically substantiated measure of sector differences in the ability to catch up with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294690
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Competition, imitation, and R&D productivity in a growth model with sector-specific patent protection
Mosel, Malte - 2010
is found that patents ought to be weaker, the more intense competition, the higher R&D productivity, and the more … competition and introduces an empirically substantiated measure of sector differences in the ability to catch up with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270491
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Product Pricing when Demand Follows a Rule of Thumb
Matzke, Christina; Wirth, Benedikt - 2009
as suggested in consumer research. On this basis, we investigate monopoly and competition between firms, described via an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270001
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The Effects of Trade Liberalization on Productivity and Welfare: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity, R&D and Market Structure
Stähler, Frank; Raff, Horst; Long, Ngo Van - 2007
examine how trade liberalization affects firm and industry productivity, as well as social welfare. We identify four effects … of trade liberalization on productivity: (i) a direct effect through changes in R&D investment; (ii) a scale effect due …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296284
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Innovation and trade with heterogeneous firms
Long, Ngo Van; Raff, Horst; Stähler, Frank - 2009
industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms … expected industry productivity. The central results of the paper regarding firm and industry level R&D spending differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266051