Bigger is Better: Market Size, Demand Elasticity and Innovation

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Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands (2011, result): “This result is similar to Atkeson and Burstein (2007) and Desmet and Parente (2008) for process innovation in single-product firms.”
Jobs and climate policy: Evidence from British Columbia's revenue-neutral carbon tax (2017, background): “Although a large number of studies in the literature have examined the relationship between 6For example, Desmet and Parente (2010) and Edmond et al.”
Are Exporters More Likely to Introduce Product Innovations (2012, unknown): “It is worth noting that an exporter entering a new foreign market has to search for a niche to sell his production, this possibly implying changes in the characteristics of his product, not necessarily to meet diverse foreign needs but possibly to differentiate himself from foreign competitors (Desm”
The Dynamics of Employment Growth: New Evidence from 18 Countries (2014, background): “Market size (Desmet and Parente, 2010); multi-national status (e.g. Criscuolo and Martin, 2009); family ownership (e.g. Sraer and Thesmar, 2007); and international openness of the economy (Eaton et al; 2004) have also been found to be related to firm size.”