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We investigate the optimal R&D portfolio of a single-product monopolist investing in cost-reducing activities accompanied by efforts improving the quality of its product. There emerges that the firm's relative incentives along the two directions are conditional upon market affluency, measured by...
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I investigate a simple model of advance-purchase contracts as a mode of financing costly projects. An entrepreneur has to meet some capital requirement in order to start production and sell the related good to a limited number of potential buyers who are privately informed about their...
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I investigate a simple model of advance-purchase contracts as a mode of financing costly projects. The analysis can easily be reinterpreted as a model of the monopolistic provision of excludable public goods under private information. An entrepreneur has to meet some capital requirement in order...
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When an improvable durable good (such as packaged software) saturates the market, the seller could be tempted to release new versions too frequently, hurting her profit. A novel contractual device, which we term as a Free New Version Rights warranty (Free NVR warranty), can help the seller...
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: disruptive innovation that provides opportunities for entry; competition from online platforms that have secured a toehold in one … this points to online platforms facing sleepless nights since any online platform that tries the quiet life of monopoly …
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relation of monopoly and competition to invention/innovation and knowledge management under conditions of periodical … technical progress leading to furthering of productive capacity through progressive knowledge development via invention/innovation …
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by a monopoly owned by the inventor. We show that philanthropy does not necessarily increase long-run growth and that it … may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …
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We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided market framework. The platform provider faces uncertainty about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. It maximizes the expected present value of its profit stream in a continuous-time...
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increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a monopoly. Workers can specialize in material goods production … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set …
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-shape in the success probability. Since even at the peak entry is rather unlikely, the persistence of the monopoly is high …. -- Persistence of Monopoly ; Efficiency Effect ; Replacement Effect ; Stochastic Innovations …
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