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the impact of a particular regulation - license requirements for certain firm activities - on the innovation performance … led to an eight percentage points higher innovation rate within two years following the reform. We measure innovation as …
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Our concern is with a firm-specific industrial policy. When R&D subsidies or taxes are differentiated among firms, the question arises which firms in an industry should receive such support. We analyze a situation where firms differ in their R&D technologies in two distinct ways: They differ...
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This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …
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, frequently raised in the context of theoretical and empirical research on industrial innovation, of what triggers a firm … rate and profitability. This linkage offers an alternative perspective on the incentives for innovation. Furthermore, we …
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We develop a parsimonious model of innovating firms rich enough to confront firm-level evidence. It captures the dynamic behavior of individual heterogeneous firms, describes the evolution of an industry with simultaneous entry and exit, and delivers a general equilibrium model of technological...
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Pharmaceutical firms spend increasing amounts in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), which raises the question of whether sufficient investment is left after mergers to further develop firms’ internal drug development capability. We evaluate the effects of M&As on firms’ post-merger R&D...
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Mergers realize heterogeneous competitive effects on profits, production, and prices. To date, it is unclear whether differential merger outcomes are caused mostly by firms’ technology or product market attributes. Furthermore, empirical merger studies conventionally assume that, conditional...
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-level information on mergers, production, and innovation in the dynamic random access memory semiconductor market from 1985 to 2004. Our …
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We explore the potential roles of industrial policy in the transition from middle-income to high-income status, and the actual experience of industrial policy in emerging economies. Guided by the conceptual framework of the neo-Schumpeterian approach, we look at industrial policy in the context...
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attempt to search for directions, as well as the power of impact of different phases of the business cycle on the innovation … industrial companies (questionnaire survey) it was stated that in the prosperity phase the implementation of the innovation …, the innovation activity is a less common phenomenon, but is not completely abandoned. Research results did not confirm the …
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