Under continual innovation, greater patent strength expands innovating firms’ profit against imitation, but also shifts profit from current to past innovators. We show how the impact of patents on innovation, as determined by these two opposing effects, varies with industry characteristics....

The acquisitions are generally associated to merges. In reality, the two operations are distinct from an economic point of view. When Vodafone adventured for the first time overseas, its expansion methods were the acquisitions. Through these, Vodafone was a minority investor, the rest being...

The targeted objectives are to understand the necessity of implementation of the advance pricing arrangement (APA) by the Romanian national tax authority as a technical support in dealing with cross-border transactions between related parties. The paper first identifies the concept of advance...

In this paper we apply the complete analysis of a differentiable game (recently introduced by the author) to determine possible suitable behaviors (actions) of tourism firms during strategic interactions with other tourism firms, from both non-cooperative and cooperative point of view. To...

How do the effects of financial constraints on innovation performance vary by sector and firm characteristics? This paper uses innovation survey data from eleven European countries to examine the heterogeneity of these effects. So far, there has been a lack of cross-country micro-level studies...

Tanulmányunk az ágazatok közötti kereseti különbségek mértékét, keletkezésük okait elemzi Magyarországon a kilencvenes évek végén. Az első részben áttekintjük az ágazatközi bérkülönbségekre vonatkozó legfontosabb elméleti megfontolásokat, bemutatjuk a vizsgálatukra...

Az Európai Kisvállalati Társaság (ECSB) és a Magyar Kisvállalati Társaság által Budapesten, 1998. április 2. és 4. között rendezett kis- és középvállalati konferencia a Nemzetközi Kisvállalati Társaság (ICSB) 1996. évi stockholmi világkonferenciáján A kis- és...

In the last decades, electricity markets thoughout the Eurozone have undergone substantial changes. The deregulation of electricity markets stimulated investments in the production and distribution of energy, but there are large risks associated with these investments due to price volatility...

This study stemmed from the lack of evidence and uncertainties regarding the economic and political effects of a strategic alliance between leading oil companies like Petrobras and Galp on their host economies. This paper investigates whether public and private corporations in the energy sector...