This paper models pre-invention-insight research effort and explores the proposition that competition among potential inventors, who can freely enter into the discovery process and who freely share their ideas without taking intellectual property as they strive to discover invention insights,...

This paper discusses the design of hypothesis tests about multimarket contact and uses a sample of chemicals firms to illustrate researchers' choices and to provide new evidence about the effects of multimarket contact in product and innovation markets. Multimarket contact has a large, stable...