Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/32234 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2009,11
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine the persistence of monopolies in markets with innovations when the outcome of research is uncertain. We show that for low success probabilities of research, the incumbent can seldom preempt the potential entrant. Then the efficiency effect outweighs the replacement effect. It is vice versa for high probabilities. Moreover, the incumbent specializes in safe” research and the potential entrant in risky” research. We also show that the probability of entry has an inverted U-shape in the success probability. Since even at the peak entry is rather unlikely, the persistence of the monopoly is high.
Subjects: 
Persistence of Monopoly
Efficiency Effect
Replacement Effect
Stochastic Innovations
JEL: 
L12
O31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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