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This paper models the simultaneous investments in cost-reducing and environmental R&D by asymmetric firms competing à la Cournot. Pollution rights are allocated by the regulator, and firms can trade pollution permits. Both R&D competition and R&D cooperation are considered; in the latter case,...
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The paper analyses the relationship between technological collaboration and collusion. Firms can collude or defect on the output market, but with the novelty that there is a possibility of developing a new technology jointly. The development of the new technology is conditional on prior...
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It has long been suspected that the organization and ownership of firms could affect the innovation performance of … their performance in terms of innovation. To this end, the paper examines the evidence of vertical linkages across the … organization for the performance of innovation activities, among others. The paper also looks at the role of multinationals and the …
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This paper studies the effect of tariffs on R&D expenditures when there are R&D spillovers between firms. We consider a three-stage game, where the government determines the amount of the tariff and R&D subsidy in the first stage, firms choose their R&D expenditures in the second stage, and...
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This paper studies the decision of firms to expense or capitalize R&D expenditures. The firm has an incentive to mismatch the benefits and costs of R&D, expensing a larger portion of R&D when the benefits occur in the long-run and capitalizing a larger portion when the benefits occur in the...
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This paper studies the impact of cooperative R&D on innovation, welfare, and profitability in vertically related industries with differentiated products. The model incorporates two vertically related industries, with horizontal spillovers within industries and vertical spillovers between them....
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The model studies information sharing and the stability of cooperation in cost reducing Research Joint Ventures (RJVs). In a three-stage game-theoretic framework, firms decide on participation in a RJV, information sharing along with R&D expenditures, and output. An important feature of the...
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This paper studies vertical R&D spillovers between upstream and downstream firms. The model incorporates two vertically related industries, with horizontal spillovers within each industry and vertical spillovers between the two industries. Four types of R&D cooperation are studied: no...
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