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incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed remedy. We discuss the economic basis for the Commission’s claims that … and argue that the effects on innovation are not unambiguously negative as Microsoft claim. We conclude with some general … implications of the case for anti-trust enforcement in high innovation sectors. …
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innovation distinguishing between “dirty” (internal combustion engine) and “clean” (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
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effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …
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due to a weakness in technological innovation despite a high quality science base. This includes comparatively low and …
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This paper examines the relative influence of domestic and foreign renewable energy policies on innovation activity in … new capacities by increasing their innovation effort. However, the effect on innovation of the marginal wind turbine …
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long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated … inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional “trapped factor” effect. Starting …
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countries on the rate of innovation in this technology. We use annual wind power generation to capture the stringency of the … an indicator of innovation activity. We find that wind technology improvements respond positively to policies both home … constitutes a powerful policy leverage for boosting environmental innovation globally. …
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, higher rates of innovation and faster employment growth. Second, there is a substantial dispersion of management practices …
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We study the determinants and consequences of family-friendly workplace practices (FFWP) using a sample of over 450 manufacturing firms in Germany, France, U.K., and U.S. We find a positive correlation between firm productivity and FFWP. This association disappears, however, once we control for...
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This paper contains an empirical analysis demand for “work-group” (or low-end) servers. Servers are at the centre of many US and EU anti-trust debates, including the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger and investigations into the activities of Microsoft. One question in these policy decisions is...
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