Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/159672 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Quaderni - Working Paper DSE No. 833
Publisher: 
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE), Bologna
Abstract: 
We study the licensing incentives of an independent input producer owning a patented product innovation which allows the downstream firms to improve the quality of their final goods. We consider a general two-part tariff contract for both outside and incumbent innovators. We find that technology diffusion critically depends on the nature of market competition (Cournot vs. Bertrand). Moreover, the vertical merger with either downstream firm is always privately profitable and it is welfare improving for large innovations: this implies that not all profitable mergers should be rejected.
JEL: 
L15
L13
L24
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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