On the Empirical Distribution of the Balassa Index. — The concept of revealed comparative
advantage as measured by the Balassa index is widely used in practice to determine a …

The number of cartels detected in the United States and in Europe has increased considerably
since the introduction of corporate leniency programs in antitrust legislation. It cannot, …

Comparing the effect on private R&D investments of allowing firms to cooperate in R&D with
that of providing R&D subsidies reveals that in general the latter policy is more effective than …

We estimate the incremental financing decision for a sample of some 150 Dutch companies
for the years 1984 through 1997, thereby distinguishing internal finance and three types of …

The theoretically necessary and sufficient condition for the correspondence between ‘revealed’
comparative advantage and pre-trade relative prices derived by Hillman ( 1980 ) is …

Introducing a finite reservation price in Hotelling's spatial duopoly with linear transportation
costs shows that (i) there does not exist a pure strategy symmetric location equilibrium if the …

In an earlier article in this journal I compared two R&D-stimulating policies: allowing for
R&D cooperatives and providing direct R&D subsidies (see Hinloopen, 1997:Journal of …

We analyze the dynamics of Chinese comparative advantage as measured by export shares
and the Balassa index using 3-digit and 4-digit sectors for the period 1970-1997. We use …

<p>The innovation performance of firms is primarily determined by their own innovative activities
and the interaction with their innovation-related environment. This environment typically …

Although firms have many reasons for investing in R&D, still market forces are believed to
be inadequate for directing an optimal amount of funds towards R&D investments. An …