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Private Incentives to Innovate: Interplay of New Products and Brand-Name Reputation

Leheyda, Nina - 2008

This paper studies the introduction of new products (increase in product variety) in the automobile industry. The focus is on the two sources of market power that may allow the firms to get higher profits (and, thus, recoup investments): new products and brand-name reputation. The effects of new...

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Marktstruktur, Wettbewerb und Innovation

Caspari, Volker - 2001

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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2007

ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of … many techno organisational innovation and networking strategies, original recent survey data for manufacturing and services … and process/product output innovation. R&D is a main driver of innovation and productivity, even without networking. This …

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Firms' differential innovative success and market dynamics

Cantner, Uwe - 2007

This paper deals with innovative activities of firms, the resulting market success as well as the interdependencies between both. In a first theoretical part, different cases of those interdependencies are investigated by the way of a simple model based on replicator dynamics. It is shown that...

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Product market reform and innovation in the EU

Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Simpson, Helen - 2006

, innovation and economic growth. We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme … with a subsequent increase in innovation intensity and productivity growth for manufacturing sectors. In our analysis we … reforms on average profitability, and the effects of profitability on innovation and productivity growth. – Competition …

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The Effects of Privatization and Competitive Pressure on Firms? Price-cost Margins: Micro Evidence from Emerging Economies

Konings, Jozef; Van Cayseele, Patrick; Warzynski, Frederic - 2002

This paper uses representative firm level panel data of 1,701 Bulgarian and 2,047 Romanian manufacturing firms to estimate market power (i.e. price-cost margins) and to analyze how these are affected by privatization and increased competitive pressure. In contrast to earlier work that analyzes...

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Market Power, Competition and Ownership in Emerging Economies

Konings, Jozef; Van Cayseele, Patrick; Warzynski, Frederic - 2001

In this paper, we analyze the effects of trade, concentration and ownership on the pricing behavior of firms in two transition countries, Bulgaria and Romania. We use an extensive dataset of more than 3000 firms and sector level infirmation to estimate the effects of these three factors on the...

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Product Market Reforms and Unemployment in Europe

Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2001

In this paper we study how promoting product market competition by reducing mark-ups or by increasing productivity are able to complement labor market reforms. We use a simple general equilibrium model with different types of labor. The bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms...

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The quiet life hypothesis in banking: Evidence from German savings banks

Koetter, Michael; Vins, Oliver - 2008

The quiet life hypothesis (QLH) posits that banks enjoy the advantages of market power in terms of foregone revenues or cost savings. We suggest a united approach to measure competition and efficiency simultaneously to test this hypothesis. We estimate bank-specific Lerner indices as measures of...

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Wettbewerb im deutschen Mobilfunkmarkt

Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Stühmeier, Torben - 2010

This paper studies competition in the German market for mobile telecommunications, motivated by recent suggestions that T-Mobile and Vodafone possess a position of collective dominance. Allegedly, their position of joint dominance is secured through a combination of first-mover advantages and...

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