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David Pérez-Castrillo

David Pérez-Castrillo is a professor of economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a research professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. His fields of specialization are the economics of innovation, game theory, and the economics of information. He received his PhD from l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris, France.
Antitrust and Competition

The Impact of Large Institutional Investors on Innovation Is Not as Positive as One Might Expect

Bing Guo
In a new paper, Bing Guo, Dennis C. Hutschenreiter, David Pérez-Castrillo, and Anna Toldrà-Simats study how large institutional investors impact firm innovation. The authors find that large institutional investors encourage internal research and development but discourage firm acquisitions that would add patents and knowledge to their firms’ portfolios, hampering overall innovation.

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The publication of the Stigler Center at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

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