Showing 1 - 10 of 45
Technological standards give rise to a complements problem that affects pricing and innovation incentives of technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008823190
and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008823197
We consider procurement of an innovation from heterogeneous sellers. Innovations are random but depend on unobservable … admission to an innovation contest. After the contest, an innovation is procured employing either a fixed prize or a first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935696
An innovative firm with private information about its indivisible process innovation chooses strategically whether to … the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market. A Cournot competitor tends to patent big … substitutability increases the incentives to patent the innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008822610
This paper tests whether upstream R&D cooperation leads to downstream collusion. We consider an oligopolistic setting where firms enter in research joint ventures (RJVs) to lower production costs or coordinate on collusion in the product market. We show that a sufficient condition for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008823183
complements problem but not the double mark-up problem. Vertical integration discourages entry and reduces innovation incentives …, while horizontal integration always encourages entry and innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343929
Overconfidence is a well-established behavioral phenomenon that involves an overestimation of own capabilities. We introduce a model, in which managers and agents exert effort in a joint production, after the manager decides on the allocation of the tasks. A rational manager tends to delegate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571367
We consider a licensing mechanism for process innovations that combines a license auction with royalty contracts to those who lose the auction. Firms' bids are dual signals of their cost reductions: the winning bid signals the own cost reduction to rival oligopolists, whereas the losing bid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935644
This paper reconsiders the licensing of a common value innovation to a downstream duopoly, assuming a dual licensing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935649
This paper revisits the licensing of a non-drastic process innovation by an outside innovator to a Cournot oligopoly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365856