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between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015 …
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between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015 …
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identify and quantify the impact of environmental regulations, innovation-inputs, firm-specific characteristics, spillovers … from other green innovators, public funding and innovation co-operations on the propensity of firms to introduce …
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This paper examines how strategic alliances to create and use standards affect economic growth and development. The explanation of the link from standards to economic growth and development is through the effects of standards on the incentives to perform industrial research and development...
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competition on R&D according to the cost of the 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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entrants. Focusing primarily on pharmaceutical innovation, we analyze various policy interventions to solve this … an underlying invention's social value, and we show how such a system could incentivize socially optimal innovation …
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Government subsidies are often used to stimulate environment-friendly investment. We find that Chinese firms reduce green investment as the uncertainty of subsidies rises. This effect is identified from weather-driven fluctuations in air pollution that lead to fluctuations in subsidy...
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This paper examines vertical integration incentives in the presence of a cost-reducing technology. Combining the technology adoption and vertical merger literatures in a simple duopoly model, I show that asymmetric integration can occur even in a purely symmetric set-up, without synergies or...
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We analyse competition between perfectly substitutable networks. Monopolization can be sustained in equilibrium by asymmetric access prices whereby entry is deterred by a set of margin squeezes. A regulatory package consisting of (i) mandatory interconnection; (ii) reciprocal access prices;...
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Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of deregulation and restructuring on public-interest environmental research conducted by electric utilities in the US for the period 1990-2001. I find that deregulation has had a tremendous negative on such expenditures which have declined by 40 percent....
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