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Identification in ascending auctions, with an application to digital rights management
Freyberger, Joachim; Larsen, Bradley J. - In: Quantitative Economics 13 (2022) 2, pp. 505-543
This study provides new identification and estimation results for ascending (traditional English or online) auctions with unobserved auction-level heterogeneity and an unknown number of bidders. When the seller's reserve price and two order statistics of bids are observed, we derive conditions...
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Actions undertaken to further small and medium enterprises development in the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Okrzesik, Olga - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 4, pp. 1175-1185
The article focuses on the ongoing activities in the Silesian Voivodeship for the purpose of developing enterprises from the SME sector, inter alia, through increasing innovation. An analysis of desk research strategies and regulations in the Silesian Voivodeship facilitating the growth of a...
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Directions of increasing innovativeness of economy: The case of Poland
Okrzesik, Olga - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 18 (2018) 1, pp. 313-321
Innovations significantly affect a country's economic development, at the same time contributing to raising its position. A very important role in improving the innovativeness of enterprises, regions or the national economy is played by the state, creating a strategy, programmes or regulations...
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Novel insights in the leadership in business and economics: A post-Coronavirus update
Strielkowski, Wadim; Firsova, Irina; Azarova, Svetlana; … - In: Economies 10 (2022) 2, pp. 1-20
Our world is evolving at an incredibly enormous speed and what was impossible three years ago is now a reality. The concept of leadership and leaders has also undergone profound transformations. Moreover, the recent COVID-19 pandemic caused a digital surge in the ways economic life, business, or...
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Westdeutsche Industrie kürzt Investitionsausgaben in 2002
Weichselberger, Annette - In: ifo Schnelldienst 55 (2002) 16, pp. 27-32
rechnen, vor allem kleinere Firmen planen Investitionskürzungen. Nach den Meldungen der Unternehmen ist nach wie vor die … Erweiterungsmaßnahmen. Allerdings bauen die Unternehmen weniger ihr bestehendes Produktionsprogramm aus, sondern erweitern im Zuge einer …% der westdeutschen Unternehmen der wichtigste Investitionsanlass. …
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Minimum quality standards and novelty requirements in a one-short development race
Prokop, Jacek; Regibeau, Pierre; Rockett, Katharine - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-15, pp. 1-49
We examine the timing and quality of product introduction in an R&D stopping game, where we allow for horizontal and vertical differentiation in the product market. We observe that discontinuous changes in introduction dates can occur as firms' abilities as researchers change. Further, when the...
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Protecting Innovation Through Patents and Trade Secrets: Evidence for Firms with a Single Innovation
Crass, Dirk; Valero, Francisco Garcia; Pitton, Francesco; … - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 26 (2019) 1, pp. 117-156
This paper analyzes the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect innovation. While previous studies have usually considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate to what extent and in what situations the two protection methods are...
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The Dynamic Relationship Between Investments in Brand Equity and Firm Profitability: Evidence Using Trademark Registrations
Crass, Dirk; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Toole, Andrew A. - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 26 (2019) 1, pp. 157-176
Most marketing practitioners and scholars agree that marketing assets such as brand equity significantly contribute to a firm’s financial performance. In this paper, we model brand equity as an unobservable stock that results from up to 30 years of past brand-related investment flows. Using...
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Exploring dynamic capabilities, intellectual capital and innovation performance relationship: Evidence from the garment manufacturing
Wendra, Wendra; Sule, Ernie Tisnawati; Joeliaty, Joeliaty; … - In: Verslas: Teorija ir praktika / Business: Theory and Practice 20 (2019), pp. 123-136
The notions of dynamic capabilities, intellectual capital, and innovation performance have been examined in many competitive advantage scholarly papers. However, there have been small numbers of management studies that consider the link of dynamic capabilities and intellectual capital in respect...
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The influence of standards and patents on long-term economic growth
Blind, Knut; Ramel, Florian; Rochell, Charlotte - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 47 (2021) 4, pp. 979-999
Formal standards codify knowledge. Next to patents representing the generation of innovative knowledge, standards can hence be used to proxy the diffusion of innovative knowledge in macroeconomic growth models. Previous work mainly investigates the positive impact of in particular patents, but...
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