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biotechnology alliances between clients and R&D firms. In the model, an equity link is an investment in information acquisition: it …
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performance. Although there certainly are empirical facts requiring further study, I conclude that the evidence does not support …
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We build a model of firm entry and exit and show how returns to scale shape firm survival, the equilibrium productivity and size distributions and firm concentration. High productivity dispersion and high concentration ratios need not reflect inefficiencies when returns to scale are strongly...
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Media pundits and some politicians would have us believe that industrial production has been declining in the United States. Some would even say that “we don't make things anymore.” However, the statistics show a different picture. This paper examines the trade statistics for the United...
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The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...
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firms specialised in information technologies. More precisely, software and communication sectors have been receiving the … financement pour les entreprises spécialisées dans les technologies de l'information. Plus précisément, les secteurs des logiciels … développement exponentiel d'Internet (accroissement des besoins de communication des entreprises et développement du commerce …
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I study the effects of basic and applied innovation on a firm's market value and total factor productivity for a panel of U.S. manufacturing firms. Basicness of innovation is measured by the index of generality proposed by Trajtenberg, Henderson and Jaffe (1997), and basic and applied innovation...
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This paper examines the production and political responses of the Big Three auto assemblers to the penetration of the North American market by Japanese auto assemblers over the 1955-95 period, using the technological competition model to analyze three successive challenges faced by the Big...
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