Leadership Contestability, Monopolistic Rents and Growth /

I construct an endogenous growth model where R and D is carried out at the industry level in a game of innovation between leaders and followers. Innovation costs for followers are assumed to increase with the technological lag from leaders. We obtain three results that contrast with standard Schumpe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Piazza, Roberto
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/063
Online Access:Full text available on IMF