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Semi-Public Competitions
Prufer, Jens - 2013
The process of innovation is driven by two main factors: new inventions and institutions supporting the transformation of inventions into marketable innovations. This paper proposes a new institution, called a semi-public competition, that has been neglected by the economic literature but exists...
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Efficient Competition in Insurance Markets
Dosis, Anastasios - 2017
I construct an efficient game of competition for insurance markets with adverse selection. In the game, each company offers two menus of contracts: a public menu and a private menu. The union of all the public menus needs to be offered by every active company in the market. A private menu...
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Innovation, competition and productivity : firm level evidence for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Friesenbichler, Klaus S.; Peneder, Michael - 2016
We investigate the drivers of firm level productivity in catching-up economies by jointly estimating its relationship 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...
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Do Product Market Reforms Raise Innovation? Evidence from Micro-data Across 12 Countries
Litina, Anastasia - 2020
How does policy affect innovation and the digital economy? We revisit how standard product market regulation affects … innovation and develop a novel framework for thinking about digital regulation. Using new establishment-level micro-data across … that a standard deviation rise in standardized index of product market regulation is associated with a 1.029% decline in …
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Competitiveness and growth of the Mexican economy
Chiquiar, Daniel; Ramos-Francia, Manuel - 2009
We address the role that deep, structural factors may have as determinants of Mexico's economic growth. We argue that Mexico's poor growth performance appears to be associated not only with shorter-run events such as the "lost decade" of the eighties, but also with supply-side features of the...
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Chapter 1. What Do We Learn From Schumpeterian Growth Theory?
Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Howitt, Peter - 2014
; (ii) firm dynamics; (iii) the relationship between growth and development with the notion of appropriate growth …
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Trust, investment and competition : theory and evidence from German car manufacturers
Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2019
Based on data from a comprehensive benchmarking study on buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry, we show that more trust in a relationship is associated with higher idiosyncratic investment by suppliers and better part quality - but also with more competition among...
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Fair Private Governance for the Platform Economy : EU Competition and Contract Law Applied to Standard Terms
Rutgers, Jacobien W.; Sauter, Wolf - 2021
account the December 2020 Commission proposals for platform regulation, as well as behavioral insights into consumer behavior …
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Social comparison and optimal contracts in competition for managerial talent
Ulrichshofer, Anna; Walzl, Markus - 2020
We analyze the impact of social comparison on optimal contract design under imperfect labor market competition for managerial talent. Adding a disutility of social comparison as induced by a ranking of verifiable efforts to the multi-task model by Bénabou and Tirole (2016), we demonstrate that...
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Evolutionary economic policy and competitiveness
Peneder, Michael - 2023
development with the basic system functions of evolutionary change, a general typology is developed that differentiates, organizes …' with the active pursuit of dynamic development goals, (ii) to break the ideologically afflicted dichotomy between 'vertical …
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