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R&D Cooperation and Spillovers: Some Empirical Evidence

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

appropriability from survey data on Belgian manufacturing firms. Incoming spillovers measure the importance of publicly available … information for the innovation process of the firm. Appropriability is defined as the effectiveness of several protection … affected by the level of incoming spillovers, while appropriability plays an important role for cooperating with suppliers or …

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Knowledge Creation and Control in Organizations

Puga, Diego; Trefler, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The incremental innovations that underlie much of modern economic growth typically involve changes to one or more components of a complex product. This creates a tension. On the one hand, a principal would like an agent to contribute innovative components. On the other hand, ironing out...

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Transparency, Appropriability and the Early State

Mayshar, Joram; Moav, Omer; Neeman, Zvika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We propose a general theory that explains the extent of the state and accounts for related institutions as byproducts of the state's extractive technology. We posit further that this extractive technology is determined by the transparency of the production technology. This theory is applied to...

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The R&D-patent relationship: An industry perspective

Danguy, Jérôme; de Rassenfosse, Gaétan; van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

claimed that the "propensity-to-patent" should be split into an "appropriability propensity" and a "strategic propensity". The …

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Endogenous Distortions in Product and Labour Markets

Rama, Martin; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper uses the common agency approach to analyse the joint determination of product and labour market distortions in a small (developing) open economy. Capital owners and union members lobby the government on both tariffs and minimum wages, while other factors of production are not...

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Centralized decision making against informed lobbying

Costa Lima, Rafael; Moreira, Humberto; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We re-address the tradeoff between centralized and decentralized decision making of local policies when policymakers are subject to capture by special interest groups. In particular, we consider the case where lobbies have private information about their ability to exert influence. We find a new...

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An allegory of the political influence of the top 1%

De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

private firm. We solve analytically for the Kantian equilibrium of this lobbying game together with the majority voting … more concentrated among the top productivity individuals, their increased lobbying effort generates efficiency as well as …

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Market-based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy

Della Vigna, Stefano; Durante, Ruben; Knight, Brian; La … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

An extensive literature has studied lobbying by special interest groups. We analyze a novel lobbying channel: lobbying … politically motivated spenders of similar magnitude, stressing the economic importance of this lobbying channel. These findings …

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Multidimensional Cheap Talk

Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

In this Paper we extend the cheap talk model of Crawford and Sobel (1982) to a multidimensional state space and policy space. We provide a characterization of equilibria. We focus on the question of feasibility of information transmission, for large degrees of conflict of interests between the...

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On the Desirability of an Efficiency Defense in Merger Control

Heidhues, Paul; Lagerlöf, Johan N. M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We develop a model in which two firms that have proposed to merge are privately informed about merger-specific efficiencies. This enables the firms to influence the merger control procedure by strategically revealing their information to an antitrust authority. Although the information improves...

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