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Product market reforms and incentives to innovate in Sweden
Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - 2013
The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular relative to almost all other EU-15 countries. We investigate two policy areas that are believed to have been important for the strong economic development in Sweden during the last...
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Competitive Pressure and the Adoption of Complementary Innovations
Kretschmer, Tobias; Miravete, Eugenio J.; Pernías, José C. - 2014
Liberalization of the European automobile distribution system in 2002 limits the ability of manufacturers to impose vertical restraints, leading to a substantial restructuring of the industry and increasing the competitive pressure among dealers. We estimate an equilibrium model of profit...
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in the United States
Suppanz, Hannes - 2004
policies, a number of challenges remain. Although there are few sectors of the economy from which competition policy and law … competition enforcement. Intellectual property rights create special challenges for competition policy and some problems have … setbacks, reflecting both the difficulties in ensuring competition in such industries and policy mistakes. …
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Do Product Market Reforms Raise Innovation? Evidence from Micro-data Across 12 Countries
Litina, Anastasia - 2020
12 countries between 1998 and 2012, this paper first estimates the effect of competition policy on innovation. We find …
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Telecommunication Sector Reform in Southeast Asia : A New Rationality
Hendrawan, Riko - 2019
Objective - The telecommunications industry in Southeast Asia continues to grow, as evidenced by the market penetration that continues to increase from 3.8% in 2000 to 71.1% in 2017. However, although the number of subscribers and revenue from telecommunication operators continued to grow...
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Land allocation in subsistence economies and intra-familial time-use decisions
Azebaze, Nadege Miclanche; Falk, Tomas; Korn, Evelyn - 2014
Classical household theory predicts that adolescents facing a developed labour market should invest in formal education. In contrast, it is obvious that adolescents in subsistence economies should choose learning-by-doing approaches to working on the family farm. However, it is unclear what...
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Tenure Security and Soil Conservation in an Overlapping Generation Rural Economy
Eskander, Shaikh - 2017
Tenure security and subsistence needs influence the choice between unexploited topsoil and investment in children's human capital as the mode of transfer of wealth. We develop an overlapping generations model of a representative rural household to inform this choice. Using a unique...
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Deregulating Innovation Capital : The Effects of the JOBS Act on Biotech Startups
Lewis, Craig M. - 2020
We examine the effect of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act on biotech startups, who conduct almost 40% of IPOs since 2012. Reduced compliance costs encourage innovation capital formation as biotech IPO volume increases 200% and proceeds rise by 30%. After the JOBS Act, biotech...
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Banking Deregulation and Innovation
Chava, Sudheer - 2015
We document empirical support for a key micro-level channel --- innovation by young, private firms --- through which financial sector deregulation affects economic growth. We find that intrastate banking deregulation, which increased the local market power of banks, decreased the level and risk...
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Can electricity liberalisation foster the development of radical clean-energy technologies?
Romagnoli, Matteo - 2022
The paper investigates the effect of electricity liberalisation on the variety of clean energy patent' search space to asses whether a more competitive electricity market can foster the development of radical clean-energy technologies. This idea is tested using a cross-section of patents filed...
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