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FeedbackWe theoretically and experimentally analyze public and private feedback in teams that are characterized by different performance technologies. We consider a setting where the principal can provide truthful information on agents' performances or strategically withhold feedback. We find...
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We theoretically and experimentally analyze the role of verifiability and privacy in strategic performance feedback using a 'one principal-two agent' context with real effort. We confirm the theoretical prediction that information transmission occurs only in verifiable feedbackmechanisms and...
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This paper analyzes the design of innovation contests when the quality of an innovation depends on the research …
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This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We show that … prohibiting killer acquisitions strictly reduces the variety of innovation projects. By contrast, we find that prohibiting other … acquisitions only has a weakly negative innovation effect, and we provide conditions under which the effect is zero. Furthermore …
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resources, increase the variety of pursued projects and thereby increase the probability of discovering the innovation. RJVs … improve innovation outcomes when market competition is weak and external financing conditions are bad. An RJV may increase the … innovation probability and nevertheless lower total R&D costs. RJVs that increase innovation tend to be profitable, but …
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This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups which serves as a … foundation for the analysis of acquisition policy. We show that prohibiting acquisitions has a weakly negative innovation effect …
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resources, increase the variety of pursued projects and thereby increase the probability of discovering the innovation. RJVs … improve innovation outcomes when market competition is weak or external financing conditions are bad. An RJV may increase the … innovation probability and nevertheless lower total R&D costs. RJVs that increase innovation also increase consumer surplus and …
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This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups which serves as a …, prohibiting acquisitions has a weakly negative overall innovation effect. We provide conditions determining the size of the effect …
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This paper analyzes the design of innovation contests when the quality of an innovation depends on the research …
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Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition....
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