A small firm leads to curious outcomes: Social surplus, consumer surplus, and R&D activities
This paper investigates an asymmetric duopoly model with a Hotelling line. We find that helping a small (minor) firm can reduce both social and consumer surplus. This makes a sharp contrast to existing works showing that helping minor firms can reduce social surplus but always improves consumer surplus. We also investigate R&D competition. We find that a minor firm may engage in R&D more intensively than a major firm in spite of economies of scale in R&D activities.
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2009-06
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Authors: | Matsumura, Toshihiro ; Matsushima, Noriaki |
Institutions: | Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka University |
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