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Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Firms’ decisions about which goods to produce are often made at a more disaggregate level than the data observed by empirical researchers. When products differ according to production technique or the way in which they enter demand, this data aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard...

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Creative Destruction and Productivity Growth in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing

De Loecker, Jan; Konings, Jozef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

In most transition countries the aggregate level evidence suggests that most industries are just destroying jobs, due to the legacy of communism where over-manning levels of employment were the norm. This Paper sheds light on whether the transition process in Slovenian manufacturing has been one...

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Product Choice and Product Switching

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper develops a model of endogenous product selection by firms. The theory is motivated by new evidence we present on the importance of product switching by US manufacturers. Two-thirds of continuing firms change their product mix every five years, and product switches involve more than...

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Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness and determinants of product switching among U.S. manufacturing firms. We find that two-thirds of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that one-third of the increase in real U.S. manufacturing shipments between 1972...

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R&D Cooperation and Spillovers: Some Empirical Evidence

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

mechanisms for appropriating the benefits of successful innovations. The decision to cooperate with research institutes is mainly …

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Complementarity in the Innovation Strategy: Internal R&D, External Technology Acquisition and Cooperation

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and development, firms typically are engaged in the acquisition...

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Innovation and the Export-productivity Link

Cassiman, Bruno; Golovko, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports using a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms for 1990-1998. Our results - based on non-parametric tests - suggest that firm innovation status is important in explaining the positive export-productivity association...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

, incumbents' valuations of innovations are less negatively affected by increased competition than entrants' profits. This, in turn …, but not too strict, merger policy tends to increase the incentive for innovations for sale by ensuring the bidding … competition for the innovation, without reducing the total rents for innovations too much. …

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Growth and Unemployment

Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

an increase in either the size or the frequency of innovations, from human capital accumulation through learning … of innovations or through introducing learning by doing with positive external effects across sectors) introduces new …

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Innovations, Patent Races and Endogenous Growth

Zeira, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper presents a model of innovations and economic growth, in which patent rates emerge endogenously, as a result …-inefficient, as too many researchers look for the easy innovations, while too few search for the difficult ones. The third result is …

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