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This paper considers welfare effects of entry when the incumbent firmbehaves like a Stackelberg leader in the product market. In contrast to previous work(Klemperer, 1988, Journal of Industrial Economics), we show that entry may alwaysincrease welfare. Using general demand function, we show the...
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We show the welfare effects of entry in presence of technology licensingunder Cournot competition. If the entrant is …
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This paper considers the effects of entry in the final goods market when the input market is imperfectly competitive. We show that entry of a new firm may increase profit of the incumbent if the technology of the entrant is sufficiently inferior to that of the incumbent...
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This paper shows that if number of firms is determined endogenously, Cournot competition generates higher welfare … compared to Bertrand competition when products are sufficiently differentiated. If products are close substitutes, welfare is … higher under Bertrand competition. We show that the qualitative results are robust with respect to different demand …
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incentive for entry and thus, increases competition. If technology of the incumbent and entrant is sufficiently close, licensing …
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competition policy... …
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