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How do price commitments impact the amount of information firms acquire about potential customers? We examine this question in the context of a competitive market. Contracts are incomplete because the amount of information firms acquire about applicants during the screening process cannot be...
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In this empirical study all mergers that have been challenged by the U.S. antitrust agencies FTC and DOJ between 1995 and 2008 were analyzed in regard to the question to what extent and how the agencies assessed the innovation effects of mergers. Theoretical background is the still open question...
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The U.S. has been under pressure to abandon the unique first-to-invent feature of its patent law for awarding patents. The opposition to reform however argues that switch to a first-to-file rule, the international norm, will undermine innovation. We evaluate this argument in a dynamic stochastic...
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office resolves patent priority disputes in patent interference cases. Using a random sample of cases declared between 1988 and 1994, we establish a connection between patent interferences and patent races, and then use the data to consider some key issues in...
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The economics literature clearly shows that the transmission of knowledge diminishes with physical distance, a factor contributing to industrial clustering. This paper investigates how those distances have stretched over time. We measure the physical distance between collaborating inventors, as...
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distinguish between these two shocks and, under incomplete learning, private perceptions of the inflation target will not equal …
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learning from experience that also allows for heterogeneity in both private information and updating. Our model vastly …
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feature of the model is that learning operates in both the demand for assets and the supply of credit. Interactions between … propagation. In contrast, the paper shows why learning involving only one side on the market, which has been the focus of most of …
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learning and policy recommendation in advisory committees. We quantify the effectiveness of advisory panels, and evaluate …
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While the role of organizational learning in improving firms’ performance is well documented, there are still questions … surrounding the dominant forces driving technological learning. This is particularly true in the electricity industry where the … growth of renewable technologies has been pervasive. On the one hand, vicarious learning contributes to the adoption of …
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