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Patent protection and innovation in a vertical structure

Basak, Debasmita; Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 837-842

We show a new way through which patent protection affects innovation. We show that patent protection may reduce the … final goods producers' incentives for innovation in industries with imperfectly competitive input markets. The input market …

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Innovation and social desirability of merger

Mukherjee, Arijit; chowdhury, Prabal Roy - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 348-360

their effects on innovation, several merger proposals have been challenged due to their adverse innovation effects. In a … desirability of merger may depend on the effectiveness of the patent system and the cost of innovation. …

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Knowledge diffusion under patent with asymmetric firms

Mukherjee, Arijit; Sinha, Uday Bhanu - In: Economics Bulletin 12 (2007) 9, pp. 1-6

We show that if patent protection and trade secrecy generate asymmetric market structure, an innovator may prefer patent protection than trade secrecy even if the diffusion probability is higher under the former but it increases market concentration by preventing some imitators. So, whether an...

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Licensing and Patent Protection

Bagchi, Aniruddha; Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 3, pp. 2010-2016

may not be the equilibrium outcome in the presence of licensing. Depending on the cost of innovation, licensing may either …

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Knowledge diffusion under patent with asymmetric firms

Mukherjee, Arijit; Sinha, Uday Bhanu - In: Economics Bulletin 12 (2007) 9, pp. 1-6

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