Competition and Innovation: an Inverted-U Relationship

By Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, R. Blundell, Rachel Griffith, Peter Howitt. 2005

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Growth with Quality-Improving Innovations: An Integrated Framework (2005, neutral): “These predictions have been confronted by Aghion et al (2002) with UK firm level data on competition and patenting, and we briefly summarize their findings in the next subsection.”
Firm Productivity, Innovation and Financial Development (2010, background): “For example, Aghion et al. (2005a) argue that competition can have different effects on the willingness to innovate. High-efficiency firms may respond positively to competition by innovating more while low-efficiency firms may be discouraged by competition. The empirical evidence in Aghion et. al. (”
How Does Corporate Investment Respond to Increased Entry Threat (2015, neutral): “expected investment opportunities generated by a higher threat of rivals’ entry (Grenadier 2002; Aghion et al. 2005). (2)In addition, our findings also speak to the literature that studies the real effects of trade liberalization (for recent surveys, see Tybout 2003 or Bernard et al. 2007). As empha”
Do National Patent Laws Stimulate Domestic Innovation in a Global Patenting Environment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Pharmaceutical Patent Protection, 19782002 (2007, result): “These results relate to the theories that competition sometimes can induce innovation (Aghion et al., 2002; Qian, 2005).”
Environmental policies and productivity growth: a critical review of empirical findings (2015, background): “…pressures, for instance by raising entry barriers or directly discriminating between incumbents and new firms, they may pose a drag on productivity growth or innovation (see Aghion et al., 2005; Aghion et al., 2004; Bourlès et al., 2010; for discussions on entry barriers and competition).”
Competition and Innovation: The Inverted-U Relationship Revisited (2013, neutral): “Special thanks are due to Rachel Griffith for sharing the data set used by Aghion et al. [2005]. The usual disclaimer applies.”
Financial Innovation: The Bright and the Dark Sides (2016, neutral): “…started by King and Levine (1993).6 Recent contributions have focused on the non-linearity of the finance-growth link, highlighting declining, insignificant or even negative associations of finance with economic growth at high levels of GDP per capita (Aghion et al., 2005, Rioja and Valev, 2004).”
A Trapped-Factors Model of Innovation † (2013, background): “Nor did the results simply reflect the pro-innovation "escape competition" effects that arise in quality ladder models (e.g., Aghion et al. 2005) as increased competition from high-cost 208 This content downloaded from 171.66.160.119 on Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:04:03 UTC All use subject to…”
Mean Field Games and Applications (2011, background): “17see [6, 5, 4] for the link between growth and competition 18In practice everybody thinks there are people less gifted than he is.”