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How does market competition affect firm innovation incentives in emerging countries? : evidence from Chile and Colombia

Benavente H., José Miguel; Zuniga, Pluvia - 2022

The effect of market competition on firm innovation remains controversial, especially in the context of developing … countries. This paper presents new empirical evidence about the causal impact of competition on firm innovation for Chilean and … propensity to invest in innovation, but this relationship manifests differently in the two countries. While this relationship is …

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COVID-19, firm innovation strategy and production efficiency : a stochastic frontier analysis of Caribbean firms

Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric - 2023

decades. The objective of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the innovation strategy and production … COVID-19, innovation, and technical efficiency for 13 Caribbean countries using the Innovation, Firm Performance, and Gender …

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The effect of within-sector, upstream and downstream energy taxes on innovation and productivity

Franco, Chiara; Marin, Giovanni - 2013

The aim of the paper is to investigate the effect of environmental stringency on innovation and productivity using a … innovation can be one of the channels through which higher sectoral productivity can be reached. The main findings suggest that … downstream stringency is the most relevant driver for innovation and that most of the effect of regulation on productivity is …

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Impact of macro-economic environment on diversification-performance relationship : a cross country study of India and Japan

Purkayastha, Saptarshi - 2013

Integrating the impact of resources and institutional factors, this study compares and contrasts the dynamic relationships between product diversification, business group affiliation and firm performance in two major economies in Asia. India and Japan have been chosen as they represent different...

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Vujanović, Nina - 2023

This paper investigates spatial dependence of FDI knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services using spatial panel techniques applied to the 2006-2014 Bureau Van Dijk's Amadeus firm-level dataset for Croatia and Slovenia. The paper finds diverse results across the two sectors. The distance...

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What should we expect from innovation? : a model-based assessment of the environmental and mitigation cost implications of climate-related R&D

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - 2010

This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can … innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies … technical progress in the energy sector. We evaluate a range of innovation policies, both as a stand-alone instrument and in …

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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David - 2012

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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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...

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Incentives to Innovate and the Decision to Go Public or Private

Ferreira, Daniel; Manso, Gustavo; Silva, André C. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

. Innovation requires the exploration of new ideas with potential advantages but unknown probability of success. We show that it is … equity to innovation and creative destruction and also generates new predictions concerning the determinants of going public …

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Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … these constraints force export and innovation activities to become substitutes even when these activities are natural …

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