defend their monopoly position and prevent innovation and entry of high-quality competitors. This requires that the incumbent … quality upgrade related to innovation. Consistently with our empirical findings, the model delivers a negative association …

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

Physical telecom networks are costly and few, traditionally to the point of monopoly. Innovation thrives with many … service innovation efficiently. But this incentive breaks down ex post as M can extract an independent J's quasi …) purports to get the best of both worlds (BoBW). But it seems so hard to implement in innovation markets that one might construe …

We consider innovation incentives in markets where final goods comprise two strictly complementary components, one of … innovation is important. We explore ways in which the monopoly may have incentives to confiscate efficiency rents in the … competitive sector, thus weakening or destroying incentives for independent innovation. We discuss how these problems are affected …