Adoption and diffusion of cost reducing innovations : Cournot competition in duopoly

This note analyses the adoption and diffusion of innovations in a horizontally differentiated Cournot duopoly in which firms have to choose the dates for adopting a cost-reducing new technology like in Reinganum (1981a). We prove that product differentiation crucially matters in the diffusion pattern of the innovation and in the comparison between the adoption timing in the decentralized economy Vs the social optimum .

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Year of publication:	2004-10-01
Authors:	Raouf, BOUCEKKINE ; Omar, LICANDRO ; Antonio, MINNITI
Institutions:	Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), École des Sciences Économiques de Louvain
Subject:	Adoption \| diffusion \| differentiated duopoly

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Discussion Papers (IRES - Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales).
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	The text is part of a series UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES) Number 2004027
Classification:	O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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