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Across industries, this paper finds that the rate of investment-specific technical change (ISTC) is positively related … generates lumpy investment as a result of technology adoption by incumbents …
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of investment-specific technical change (ISTC); (2) the sensitivity of industry entry and exit rates to cross … of ISTC varies across industries and new investment-specific technologies can be introduced by entrants or by incumbents …
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reverting processes are rarely used in investment models in the literature. In most models, geometric Brownian motion processes … investigations of aggregate industry investment …
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We investigate a multi-market Cournot model with strategic process R&D investments wherein a multi-market monopolist meets entrants that enter one of the markets. We find that entry can enhance the total R&D expenditure of the incumbent firm. That is, entry can stimulate R&D effort. Moreover,...
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We investigate a multi-market Cournot model with strategic process R&D investments wherein a multi-market monopolist meets entrants that enter one of the markets. We find that entry can enhance the total R&D expenditure of the incumbent firm. That is, entry can stimulate R&D effort. Moreover,...
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innovation, and it is more rare and much harder to discover than sustaining innovation. But, it provides both higher investment …
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We investigate the roles played by unexpected demand shocks, besides productivity, on firms' capital investment and … productivity and demand shocks are both significant factors determining firm behavior, the former is more dominant for investment … productivity, are important factors when analyzing capital investment and firm exit decisions …
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We examine the concerns that new technologies will render labor redundant in a framework in which tasks previously performed by labor can be automated and new versions of existing tasks, in which labor has a comparative advantage, can be created. In a static version where capital is fixed and...
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