This paper examines how market competition affects the intensity and breadth of innovation. I assembled a unique … between price competition and innovation. When collusion suppressed price competition, colluding firms increased patent … technology classes increased by 30%. When competition was restored by collusion breakdown, the increased and broadened innovation …

of the stock market - in particular mergers and acquisitions. In contrast to the actual listing count, the US merger …

mergers. Theoretical background is the still open question how negative effects of mergers on innovation should be taken into … account in merger policy. Although we can show in our study that in one third of all challenged mergers also innovation …In this empirical study all mergers that have been challenged by the U.S. antitrust agencies FTC and DOJ between 1995 …

mergers. Theoretical background is the still open question how negative effects of mergers on innovation should be taken into … account in merger policy. Although we can show in our study that in one third of all challenged mergers also innovation …In this empirical study all mergers that have been challenged by the U.S. antitrust agencies FTC and DOJ between 1995 …

effects are stronger for smaller firms. Acquisitions, Research and Developement, Innovation, Competition … competition, demand and the probability that they are taken over. In contrast, we show that large firms optimally may decide to … also show that firm R&D increases with product-market competition and with industry acquisition liquidity and that these …

innovation and existing product competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data … from China impact U.S. innovation through the markets for innovation and existing products. We identify shocks to ….S. firms at a high rate, consistent with increased intellectual property competition. Overall, Chinese competition in …

. Importantly, the theoretical model captures the strategic behavior between competing firms, its effect on their innovation …