Firms, especially Chinese manufacturing firms, invest significant resources in innovation activities to sustain their … position in the intensifying competitive environment. However, innovation efficiency has led to growing concerns due to the … rapid increase in R&D expenditures. The purpose of this study is to explore the complicated role of competition on …

environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on …

products’ attractiveness and endogenous competition. The model is motivated by two novel stylized facts using Danish … feature the toughest competition. Depending on the strength of competition, two sorting patterns are possible: one in which … quantifying our model, we find that product-specific differences in attractiveness and competition explain a quarter of the …