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We consider innovation contests for the procurement of an innovation under moral hazard and adverse selection … random quality. Innovation quality is not contractible. We compare two procurement mechanisms -- a fixed prize and a first …
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This paper develops a modified Stackelberg game model for a duopoly market. Unlike the traditional duopoly where the leader and the follower both exist in the market, the modified model supposes a preexisting leader and a follower that has not yet entered the market. This specific situation has...
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An innovative firm chooses strategically whether to patent its process innovation or rely on secrecy. By doing so, the … firm manages its rival’s beliefs about the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market … ; process innovation ; imitation …
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We offer a model of experimentation and learning with uncertain outcomes, and show that competition leads to less experimentation, extending results for preemption games to experimentation with uncertain outcomes. We compare experimentation under two information settings: when the researchers...
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