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A proposal for moving from price-centric to innovation-centric competition policy, reviewing theory and evidence on … economic incentives for innovation. Competition policy and antitrust enforcement have traditionally focused on prices rather … than innovation. Economic theory shows the ways that price competition benefits consumers; and courts, antitrust agencies …
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This paper considers the optimal design of dynamic research contests when the buyer can set time-dependent prizes. We derive the buyer-optimal contest and show that it entails an increasing prize schedule. Remarkably, this allows the buyer to implement a global stopping rule. In particular, the...
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This paper studies the optimal design of dynamic research contests. We introduce interim transfers, which are paid in every period while the contest is ongoing, to an otherwise standard setting. We show that a contest where: (i) the principal can stop the contest in any period, (ii) a constant...
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Competition law compliance has become increasingly important in the banking industry as the number of infringements and … competition law infringements. Therefore, this article sets out an approach to assessing the residual risk of antitrust non …
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Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon … relationship is reasonably non-linear; (2) higher market-wide competition results in an increase in patenting, and the relationship …
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