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, 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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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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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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This paper considers a dynamic North South model of international trade and innovations in which firms can endogenously …
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We analyze the impact of mandatory access on the infrastructure investments of two competing communications networks …
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productivity and human capital investments. Using light intensity as an alternative measure for economic activity confirms the …
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investments of banks at the security level for 2005-2012 in conjunction with the credit register from Germany. Analyzing data at … increase their overall investments in securities, especially in those that had a larger price drop. The quantitative effects …
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frictions, both parties in a match are partially locked-in when they bargain over the joint surplus from their sunk investments … case of investments in homogenous capital only the agents on the short side acquire ownership of capital. There is always …
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Does inefficiency of financial markets have real consequences? Or does it only result in transfers of wealth from noise traders to arbitrageurs? We study firm business investment to address this question. In our model, benevolent managers of overvalued companies invest in projects with negative...
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This Paper studies the optimal policies of borrowers (firms or individuals) who may default subject to default costs, and analyses the asset pricing implications. Borrowers defaulting under adverse economic conditions may, despite incurring default costs, emerge as wealthier than non-borrowers...
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