their effects on innovation, several merger proposals have been challenged due to their adverse innovation effects. In a … desirability of merger may depend on the effectiveness of the patent system and the cost of innovation. …

We show a new way through which patent protection affects innovation. We show that patent protection may reduce the … final goods producers' incentives for innovation in industries with imperfectly competitive input markets. The input market …

I investigate R&D efforts for process innovation in a monopoly with uncertain demand. Two different models are proposed …

I investigate R&D efforts for process innovation in a monopoly with uncertain demand. Two different models are proposed …

article is dedicated to this question through the analysis of the first innovation survey of Tunisian firms. In particular, it … Probit models) and non-parametrical regression trees on the results of the first community innovation survey in Tunisia. We … find that the innovation behavior of the three categories of firms is strongly contrasted. Our results show firms that …

that the private returns from innovation can be greater than the social returns when the number of firms in the industry is … equal to or larger than 3. This result implies that an innovation does not always improve welfare, even when it is …

may not be the equilibrium outcome in the presence of licensing. Depending on the cost of innovation, licensing may either …

authorized production. We show that, when the innovation is non-drastic, in a duopolistic Cournot competition, the third method …