This paper investigates the impact of technical progress on the relationship between competition an investment. Using a … model of oligopoly competition with di¤erentiated products where firms invest to reduce their marginal cost of production, I … competition that maximizes investment of the industry. This feature holds also for consumer surplus and Welfare. In the model …

innovation and existing product competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data … from China impact U.S. innovation through the markets for innovation and existing products. We identify shocks to ….S. firms at a high rate, consistent with increased intellectual property competition. Overall, Chinese competition in …

We study how competition impacts innovation (and welfare) when firms compete both in the product market and in … innovation development. This relationship is complex and may lead to scenarios in which a lessening of competition increases R … provide conditions for when competition increases or decreases industry innovation and welfare. These conditions are based on …

discussed tradeoffs between innovation and price competition. I summarize recent developments in our knowledge of the … relationship between competition and innovation, highlighting the deficiencies that significantly constrain antitrust enforcers …Harold Demsetz once claimed that 'economics has no antitrust relevant theory of competition.' Demsetz offered this …

We show the effects of the bargaining power of labour unions on product innovation under decentralised and centralised … union bargaining power increases innovation if bargaining is decentralised, the market expansion effect is weak and the cost … of innovation is moderate but low. Otherwise, a higher union bargaining power reduces innovation. Hence, whether a higher …

innovation in EU15 have improved and whether such improvement has been driven by higher levels of competition in EU15 economies …. To this end, we provide a descriptive account of the competition and innovation indicators from 1980-10. Then, we discuss … the relationship between market structure (level of competition) and innovation; and estimate the impact of the former on …

concentration upon innovation, focusing on robust findings, questions of interpretation, and the identification of major gaps. We … also consider the more modest literature that considers the effect on innovation of firm characteristics other than size …