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A note on the adverse effect of competition on consumers
Dinda, Soumyananda; Mukherjee, Arijit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
It is usually believed that higher competition, implying more active firms, benefits consumers. We show that this may … consumers worse-off in the presence of a welfare maximizing tax/subsidy policy. A rise in the number of more cost inefficient …
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Sustainability of product market collusion under credit market imperfections
Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Arijit; Yang, Lei - 2016
We study the implications of credit constraints for the sustainability of product market collusion in a bank … degree of collusion, but a substantial increase keeps it unaffected relative to the no-constraint case. A permanent adverse … demand shock in this setup does not affect the possibility of collusion, but may aggravate financing constraints and …
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Foreign competition and social efficiency of entry
Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Economic Modelling 32 (2013) C, pp. 108-112
We consider social efficiency of firm-entry in the presence of foreign competition. If the labour markets are … be justified in an industry facing foreign competition, and it may depend on the transportation cost, the marginal cost …
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Labour union, entry and consumer welfare
Mukherjee, Arijit; Wang, Leonard F.S. - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 3, pp. 603-605
It is usually believed that the presence of a labour union makes firms as well as consumers worse off by increasing … for entry and may also make consumers better off compared to the situation with no labour union if the labour productivity …
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Excessive entry in a bilateral oligopoly
Mukherjee, Arijit - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2008
In a bilateral oligopoly, Ghosh and Morita (‘Social desirability of freeentry: a bilateral oligopoly analysis, 2007, IJIO) show that entry is always sociallyinsufficient if the upstream agents have sufficiently strong bargaining power. Weshow that this conclusion is very much dependent on the...
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Domestic Entry, International Trade Cost Reduction and Welfare
Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2010
We show the welfare effects of international trade cost reduction under endogenous domestic market structure. If the domestic labour market is competitive, there is no integer constraint and the trade cost represents transportation cost, a reduction in the transportation cost does not affect...
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Advantageous or Disadvantageous Semi-collusion Licensing in a Vertically Separated Industry
Mukherjee, Arijit - EconWPA - 2002
This paper compares profits and consumer surplus under non-cooperation and collusion in the product market when the …-cooperation or product market collusion depends on the R\&D productivity. If the market size is sufficiently small then firms are … always better off under product market collusion. If the market size is moderate (relatively large) then the firms are better …
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Advantageous or Disadvantageous Semi-collusion
Mukherjee, Arijit - Centre for Economic Research, School of Economics and … - 2002
This paper compares profits and consumer surplus under non-cooperation and collusion in the product market when the … product market collusion depends on the R&D productivity. If the market size is sufficiently small then firms are always … better off under product market collusion. If the market size is moderate (relatively large) then the firms are better off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005636076
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Collusion with asymmetric R&D
Mukherjee, Arijit - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2004
product market competition, industry profit isalways higher under product market cooperation. Whether R&D investments …&D issufficiently small, cooperation makes both producers and consumers better off. …
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Unionization Structure, Licensing and Innovation
Mukherjee, Arijit; Pennings, Enrico - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
This discussion paper led to a publication in the <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167718710000913">'International Journal of Industrial Organization'</A>, 29(2), 232-41.<P>Taking technological differences between firms as given, we show that the technologically advanced firm has a stronger incentive for technology licensing under a decentralized...</p></a>
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