planner is interested in the average technology whereas the private researcher is interested in the leading edge technology …

This paper addresses the key determinants of merger failure, in particular the role of innovation (post …-merger performance) and technology (ex-ante selection) when firms decide to separate. After a brief review of the existing literature we … introduce a model of process innovation where merged firms exibit intra-merger spillover of knowledge under different market …

's incentives with respect to technology choice: if demand responds elastically with respect to monetary costs, the physician has … Innovation darstellt, weil sie die Behandlungskosten senkt oder eine bessere Heilung der Krankheit ermöglicht, nicht … Technologiewahl des Arztes bewirkt: Bei einer elastischen Reaktion der Nachfrage in Bezug auf monetäre Kosten zeigt der Arzt z. B. bei …

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how … expensive and innovation investments that increase labor productivity are more profitable. We incorporate this channel in a new …

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how … expensive and innovation investments that increase labor productivity are more profitable. We incorporate this channel in a new …

This paper reviews the emergence and evolution of major topics in economics of innovation. Throughout the paper … the development of a more general theory of the determinants and the effects of TC. In turn, such theory has to deal … primarily with an assessment of both the complementarities between the economic incentives and the internal mechanisms of the so …