Arbeitspapier

Endogeneous regulatory delay and the timing of product innovation

This paper endogenizes the interplay between innovation by a regulated firm and regulatory delay. When product innovation costs fall over time, an extra day of regulatory delay increases time to introduction by more than a day. In the signaling model, the firm therefore times its innovation to communicate its private information about the marginal cost of delay to the regulator. Successful signaling leads the regulator to reduce regulatory delay. The model places testable restrictions on the empirical relationship between innovation delay and regulatory delay. The model is consistent with data gathered from a large U.S. telecommunications provider.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 05-4

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economics of Regulation
Telecommunications
Subject
Innovation
Zeit
Regulierung
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Prieger, James E.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of California, Department of Economics
(where)
Davis, CA
(when)
2005

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Prieger, James E.
  • University of California, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2005

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