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Symmetric research joint ventures: cooperative substitutes and complements

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We introduce the concepts of cooperative substitutes and complements, and use them to explain when all firms in a research joint venture will choose equal levels of R&D.; 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 apply our results to the comparison between cooperative a...

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University College Dublin
Department:
School of Economics
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Economics
Research group:
Industrial Economics
Oxford college:
Merton College
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Publisher:
Elsevier Publisher's website
Journal:
International Journal of Industrial Organization Journal website
Volume:
23
Issue:
5-6
Pages:
381-397
Publication date:
2005-06-01
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ISSN:
0167-7187
Language:
English
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ora:2112
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2008-06-19

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