We evaluate the relationship between competition and innovation in an industry where production is polluting and R&D has the aim to reduce emissions. We build up an oligopoly model where n firms compete in quantities and decide their investment in green R&D. When environmental taxation is...

This paper applies a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to study the effects of ADSL broadband internet on the performance of firms. We exploit a geographical discontinuity in the availability of ADSL broadband, firms located one side of the divide had access to broadband services that those...

We show that, for licensing by an outside innovator in a Cournot oligopoly, royalty licensing can generate higher payoff to the innovator than the fixed-fee licensing and auction if the labor market is unionized. This result holds irrespective of the unionization structure.