particular, if the linking costs are not too low and not too high, at least one such network is pairwise stable. Moreover, in … explanation for many core-periphery structures observed in real life social networks. -- Network Formation ; Heterogeneity …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 …-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …

capitalize into land prices, corroborating the hypothesis that agglomeration economies operate via network efficiency. … density rather generates a more efficient network in terms of matching and clustering. These differences in network structure …

This paper addresses the key determinants of merger failure, in particular the role of innovation (post-merger … introduce a model of process innovation where merged firms exibit intra-merger spillover of knowledge under different market … that post-merger innovation performance, in particular with large spillover, increases the probability of survival, while …

, and decreasing production and R\&D efficiencies. In this study, we investigate merger impacts on innovation using a panel … correlated with firms' innovation. Our findings also indicate that merger effect on innovation is heterogeneous across industries …Mergers lead to larger firms and a less competitive market structure, but their effects on innovation are not clear …

The impact of innovation on mergers has been a subject of debate in merger enforcements. Firms may decide to merge … provide resources for commercialization of innovation and allow for capturing knowledge spillovers. There are myriad studies … on the drivers of mergers, but empirical evidence on innovation-induced changes of merger likelihood is limited. In this …

empirical data, it finds that the US federal merger regime seems to suffer from bad network structuring stemming from …This article analyses the structure of the federal merger regime of the United States. and the options selected by the … offers the theory of regulatory competition as revised by regulatory co-opetition, alongside the theory of policy networks as …

network; and [2] the incentives of a seller s to cooperate can be calculated as if the network was a random tree with seller s … sustaining cooperation, and on how to mitigate such costs. -- Networks ; moral hazard ; graph theory ; repeated games …