rapid increase in R&D expenditures. The purpose of this study is to explore the complicated role of competition on … results show that most Chinese manufacturing firms are inefficient in R&D activities. Competition forces firms to focus on the …&D results. Therefore, there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between these variables. Competition also negatively moderates …

witnesses such an increase, resulting in higher levels of competition which coincides with the timing of the increase in …

expansion in their affiliates as a real option portfolio; Industry competition and capability to control and coordinate the …

for the U.S. economy, I simulate the importance of two mechanisms: the differential labor market competition induced by … competition, even though these effects are compensated from the cheaper-childcare effect. This generates heterogeneity in the …