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The Effects of Disclosure Regulation on Innovative Firms: Common Values

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Jos Jansen
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Firms in an R&D race actively manage rivals’ beliefs by disclosing and concealinginformation on their cost of investment. The firms’ disclosure strategies affect theirincentives to invest in R&D, and to acquire information. We compare equilibria undervoluntary disclosure with those under mandatory disclosure in a model where the firms’cost of investment are identically independently distributed. Under voluntary disclosurefirms conceal bad news, and disclose good news only if little knowledge spills over toheir rival. Under mandatory disclosure firms expect higher profits for giveninformation acquisition investments, but they acquire less information.

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG - (Die Wirkung von Offenlegungsvorschriften auf innovative Firmen: Perfekt korrelierte Werte)
Unternehmen, welche an einem F&E -Wettbewerb teilnehmen, managen aktiv die Erwartungen ihrer Konkurrenten, indem sie gezielt entscheiden, ob sie Informationen über ihre Investitionskosten veröffentlichen oder geheim halten. Durch ihre Offenlegungsstrategien beeinflussen sie sowohl die Anreize Ihrer Konkurrenten, Informationen zu sammeln, wie auch deren Anreize, F&E zu betreiben. Anhand eines Modells mit vollständig positiver Korrelation zwischen den Investitionskosten der Unternehmen vergleicht der Beitrag Gleichgewichte in denen die Unternehmen freiwillig wählen, ob sie ihre Informationen offen legen wollen, mit den Gleichgewichten, bei denen Unternehmen ihre Information offen legen müssen. Bei freiwilliger Offenlegung veröffentlichen Unternehmen schlechte Nachrichten und behalten gute für sich, um Mitbewerber zu entmutigen. Bei Offenlegungspflicht erwarten Unternehmen typischerweise höhere Gewinne für vorgegebene Investitionen in Informationskosten, aber sie beschaffen sich weniger Information.

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Paper provided by Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Research Unit: Competition and Innovation (CIG) in its series CIG Working Papers with number FS IV 02-04.

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Date of creation: Feb 2002
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Keywords: R&D Competition; Information Acquisition; Disclosure Regulation;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search, Learning, and Information
L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
O31 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
O32 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D

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