Dynamic Spatial Monopoly with Product Development

Abstract The optimal R&D investment in product innovation of a profit-seeking monopolist is characterized vs that of a social planner in a spatial market with transportation disutility, under full market coverage. It is shown that the planner's incentive to innovate is always weaker than the monopolist's, since the planner trades off the minimization of the social cost of transportation against the cost of R&D.

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Lambertini, Luca
Published in:	Spatial Economic Analysis. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1742-1772. - Vol. 2.2007, 2, p. 157-166
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis Journals
Subject:	Location \| innovation \| monopoly

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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