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This paper investigates whether and how import competition affects firm innovation. Using China’s World Trade … Organization (WTO) accession as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that import competition reduces firm innovation, which is …
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In this article, we consider technology leaders (which are innovators) and technology followers (which are non … competition and aggregate innovation. We consider a two-stage game with a deterministic Research and Development (R&D) process … outputs simultaneously. We show that the inverted-U relationship between competition and aggregate innovation occurs if …
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This work investigates how the export status of the firm influences the patterns of growth at different age classes. We address this research question resorting to a novel set of data that links together the universe of Italian firms and detailed data on export transactions. We find that the...
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We examine whether the effects of firm age and size on survival and growth found in studies of manufacturing firms 1- hold also in retailing, 2- are a reflection of underlying firm-specific efficiency, per models such as Jovanovic's (1982), or play a separate role from other firm characteristics...
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Firm growth is an essential feature of market economies, shaping together macroeconomic performance and the evolution of industry structures. As a potential indicator of organizational "fitness" within a competitive environment, firm growth is also a central concern to both the practice and...
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Using data on franchised chains, which are the type of single-product entities emphasized in industry dynamics models, we show that age and size affect growth and survival even after controlling for chain characteristics and unobserved chain-specific efficiency. This implies that age and size...
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This work investigates how the export status of the firm influences the patterns of growth at different age classes. We address this research question resorting to a novel set of data that links together the universe of Italian firms and detailed data on export transactions. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705467
corporate reports. As an original contribution, we incorporate the intensity of corporate discourse on technology …
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This paper analyses endogenous formation of technology sharing coalitions with asymmetric firms. Coalition partners … produce complementary technology advancements, although firms do not co-operate on R&D investment level or in the product …. The two-firm coalition is the preferred outcome of a welfare maximising authority if ex ante marginal cost is sufficiently …
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learningbydoing and organizational forgetting in R&D on firms’ incentives to innovate. A dynamic step-by-step innovation model with … allows followers to catch up. Contrary to the benchmark case the leader’s innovation effort declines with the lead. This … ; innovation ; knowledge ; market structure …
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