appropriate information provision enhances efficiency. We discuss extensions of the model and argue that subsidies may be a … property of a signalling equilibrium to overcome credibility problems in information provision. In addition we point out … possible problems with overreaction to public information. Furthermore, we suggest a new focus for development policy. …

; oligopoly ; product differentiation ; entry ; asymmetric information ; strategic disclosure ; stochastic patent ; trade secret …

. Innovators have private information about their abilities, and choose unobservable effort in order to produce innovations of … innovations in symmetric pure-strategy equilibrium, regardless of whether the innovators' private information is revealed or not …

representation–performance link. Overall, this paper proposes that studying strategic representations is paramount since the success …This paper delves into the effects that strategic representations have on firm performance. It does so in four ways … pervasiveness in strategy. Second, it presents a framework to study the effects of these representations on firm performance and …

classes) and in the lab (e.g., testing how varying disclosure affects performance in implementing software patents). But many …

The paper analyzes how spillovers in the product market affect the incentives of firms to reveal information about … spillovers firms fully disclose, but for intermediate spillovers firms either partially disclose or conceal all information …