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Measuring competition in banking: A critical review of methods

LEON, Florian - HAL - 2014

Many studies have attempted to investigate the determinants and implications of competition in the banking industry. The literature on the measurement of competition can be divided between the structural and non-structural approaches. The structural approach infers the degree of competition from...

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Competition, R&D and the cost of innovation

Askenazy, Philippe; Cahn, Christophe; Irac, Delphine - HAL - 2008

competition on R&D to the cost of innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an inverted U-shape. However, the shape is … flatter and competition policy is therefore less relevant for innovation when innovations are relatively costly. Intuitively …, if innovations are costly for a firm, competitive shocks have to be significant to alter its innovation decisions …

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Advertising and R&D: Theory and evidence from France

Askenazy, Philippe; Breda, Thomas; Irac, Delphine - HAL - 2010

This paper exploits a unique panel of 59,000 French firms over 1990-2004 to investigate the interactions between R&D, advertising and the competitive environment.The empirical findings confirm the predictions of a dynamic model that complements results known in static frameworks. First, more...

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Economic Analysis, Public Policy and the Software Industry

Richardson, George B. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1997

This paper focuses on three related matters. It analyses the process of competition in the software industry, this being important both in itself and for the light it throws on competition within all industries characterised by low or zero marginal costs and a high rate of technical development....

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Organisational Change, Innovation and Human Resource Development as a Response to Increased Competition

Lundvall, Bengt-Åke; Kristensen, Frank Skov - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1997

competition is a primary driving force behind organisational change and technical innovation. Firms are divided into three groups …

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Performance Pay, Delegation, and Multitasking under Uncertainty and Innovativeness An Empirical Investigation

Foss, Nicolai J.; Laursen, Keld - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2002

The existing empirical evidence is somewhat inconclusive with respect to a number of the key predictions of the agency model. Although the reach of agency theory is considerably wider, the dominant portion of work has been taken up with examining the nature of the trade-off between risk and...

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Competition, Innovation and Increasing Returns

Richardson, George B. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996

This paper concerns the operation of competition in the presence of a high rate of innovation and increasing returns … this investment yields only a normal return. Thus, competition, increasing returns and innovation may co-exist. …

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