De Waegenaere, Anja; Sansing, Richard C.; Wielhouwer, … - 2014
We examine operating and investment decisions in a duopolistic industry in which an initial investment in research … yields an immediate tax benefit for one firm, but creates a net operating loss carryover for the other firm. We show that the … conventional wisdom that suggests that the first firm is in a better position to make the research investment need not hold in a …