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Product market competition and the value of innovation: Evidence from US patent data

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  • Im, Hyun Joong
  • Park, Young Joon
  • Shon, Janghoon

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This study investigates the relationship between product market competition and the market value of innovation using firm-level patent data of US firms over the period 1977–2005. We find that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between competition and the value of innovation. Furthermore, we show that there is an “asymmetric” causal effect of intensifying product market competition on the market value of innovation, using a quasi-natural experiment based on tariff-cut events for US manufacturing firms between 1977 and 2006: a firm’s incentive to innovate tends to get stronger in response to a tariff cut when product market competition is very mild, while it tends to get weaker when very severe.

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  • Im, Hyun Joong & Park, Young Joon & Shon, Janghoon, 2015. "Product market competition and the value of innovation: Evidence from US patent data," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 137(C), pages 78-82.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:137:y:2015:i:c:p:78-82
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.10.017
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    Keywords

    Innovation; Product market competition; Value of innovation; Tariff cuts;
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    JEL classification:

    • L10 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - General
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
    • G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General

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