transition from regulation to product market competition. First, we develop a theoretical framework that models this particular … appropriation effect which has decreased innovation by 19.5 percent after deregulation, and (b) the competition effect which has … quality and generality have both declined after the introduction of downstream competition …

to innovation and competition using data from the EBRD-WB Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS …) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The findings confirm an inverted-U shaped impact of competition on R&D. Both … competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per …

This paper examines how degree of competition affects incentives to innovate in product quality in a symmetric Cournot …

Contradictory empirical and theoretical evidence on the relationship between innovation and competition has been … to competition measured by the Lerner index. The results prove sensitive to the choice of variable. Overall, the model is …