analyzing optimal intellectual property rights (IPRs) for the imitator's catching-up. Weak IPR protection and a high imitation …

future innovators; and 2) a positivecompetition effect due to reducing profit-eroding imitation by competitive firms without …

.2% less than do offline consumers. After controlling for selection, we find that using Autobytel.com reduces the price a …

The paper investigates the effects of industry-level competition on firm-level innovation and productivity. We propose … productivity. We test the model on a firm-level panel dataset based on the last three waves of the innovation survey for Norway …

that the productivity of skilled workers has risen relative to the unskilled, but it is not easy to explain why the … aggregate labour productivity was stagnant during the 1980s. Alternatively, I have constructed a theoretical model which assumes … that the demand for white-collar workers increases not because their productivity grows faster, but because increasing …

This paper uses panel data to examine the effects of foreign presence on firm level productivity in the Kenyan … that foreign firms dominated in virtually all the economic activities, including productivity performance. The analysis of … productivity determinants using a technologically profound approach produced a statistically significant role played by foreign …

factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood … shocks, provided they affect all firms randomly. Both market power and total factor productivity are estimated by applying …" firms a positive transitory shock to productivity growth rates is observed immediately after the announcement of the reform …