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 …

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 …

to innovation and competition using data from the EBRD-WB Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS … competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per …) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The findings confirm an inverted-U shaped impact of competition on R&D. Both …

Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic …

Empirical studies have found that enhanced foreign competition can encourage or discourage innovation. To address this …-product firms live forever, and the large firms invest in innovation in order to enlarge their product spans. All firms export. I … show that an increase in the competitiveness of foreign firms can increase or reduce innovation efforts of a large multi …

of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as … what kind of assessment concepts competition authorities should use for investigating innovation effects, e.g., in merger … cases. This paper, on one hand, reviews briefly our economic knowledge about competition and innovation, and claims that it …