Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/68635 
Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series No. 43
Publisher: 
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
Abstract: 
We consider a two-period duopoly characterized by a one-way spillover structure in process R&D and a very broad specification of product market competition. We show that a priori identical firms always engage in different levels of R&D, at equilibrium, thus giving rise to an innovator/imitator configuration and ending up with different sizes. In view of this endogenous firm heterogeneity, the social benefits of, and the firms' incentives for, research joint ventures are somewhat different from the case of ex post firm symmetry. The key properties of the game are submodularity (R&D decisions are strategic substitutes) and lack of global concavity.
Subjects: 
oligopolistic R&D
one-way spillovers
research joint ventures
submodularity
JEL: 
C72
L13
O32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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