Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72420 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP04/17
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, Department of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
We introduce the concept of cooperative substitutes and complements, and use it to throw light on the conditions for a research joint venture to choose equal levels of R&D by all member firms. We show that the second-order conditions for a symmetric optimum take a particularly simple form, ruling out both excessive cooperative substitutability and excessive cooperative complementarity, and nesting conditions already derived in the literature. Finally we explore the implications of our results for the comparison between research joint ventures and a non-cooperative equilibrium.
Subjects: 
Bertrand and Cournot competition
cooperative substitutes and complements
R&D
research joint ventures
strategic trade and industrial policy
JEL: 
D43
L13
L40
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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