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We investigate the incentives of a high-quality firm to transfer for free its proprietary product innovation technology …
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We study innovation timing and socially optimal intellectual property rights (IPRs) when firms facing market … winner-take-all preemption. Moreover, the welfare achieved with optimal IPRs is greater with endogenous innovation than if …
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The analysis of new product introduction using discrete-choice demand models has focused on successful products (e.g. the minivan) and their welfare impacts. Instead, we apply this approach to unsuccessful products to provide insight into the reasons for their failure. Our case study is the...
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leads to new insights on entry, horizontal product innovation, and price discrimination. …
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Value appropriation, or a firm’s ability to collect economic rents from its offerings, tools can erect barriers to competition and influences firm profitability. Patent protections are widely used value appropriation tools, but usually the appropriability regimes are not extremely tight,...
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We study the product turnover in an industry and, in particular, the survival of new products. The data set consists of monthly sales of all products sold in the Swedish beer market over the time period of 1989-1995. The death rates of newly introduced products are high--out of 199 products an...
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We characterize the effect of overlapping ownership (OO) on investments in product innovation. We analyze two opposing … technology affects the threshold required for OO to possibly stimulate investments in innovation …
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We investigate the relationship between competition and innovation using a dynamic oligopoly model that endogenizes … both the long-run innovation rate and market structure. We use the model to examine how various determinants of competition …, such as product substitutability, entry costs, and innovation spillovers, affect firms' equilibrium strategies for entry …
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This paper studies the introduction of new products (increase in product variety) in the automobile industry. The focus is on the two sources of market power that may allow the firms to get higher profits (and, thus, recoup investments): new products and brand-name reputation. The effects of new...
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We solve for an S-shaped schedule for market size for a new product that undergoes gradual widespread adoption. We hypothesize that the speed of market expansion is positively related to the current profit per unit being produced. In a mature market the unit profit is relatively low.
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