Manasakis, Constantine; Petrakis, Emmanuel - Department of Economics, University of Crete - 2007
-reducing R&D activities as well as to form a Research Joint Venture, in the presence of R&D spillovers. We show that, in contrast … to the "hold up" argument, if firms invest non-cooperatively and spillovers are low, R&D investments are higher when an … of the wage-setting, with the incentives being stronger under an industry-wide union if and only if spillovers are low …