All Outputs (14)

Strategic trade policy in a Cournot oligopoly with convex cost (2024)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A., & Sinha, U. B. (online). Strategic trade policy in a Cournot oligopoly with convex cost. Foreign Trade Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/00157325241266040

We provide a simple reason for export tax in a third-country model of strategic trade policy. We show that the optimal policy under Cournot competition could be export tax in the presence of convex production costs. This happens whether or not the im... Read More about Strategic trade policy in a Cournot oligopoly with convex cost.

Foreign direct investment and technology licensing in a polluting industry (2024)
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Cao, J., & Mukherjee, A. (2024). Foreign direct investment and technology licensing in a polluting industry. Environmental and Resource Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-024-00886-7

We consider a firm's incentive for foreign direct investment (FDI) and international technology licensing in a polluting industry. We explain the rationale and the welfare implications of complementarity between FDI and licensing, i.e., the firm's st... Read More about Foreign direct investment and technology licensing in a polluting industry.

Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining (2024)
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Mukherjee, A., & Sinha, U. B. (2024). Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 26(3), Article e12701. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12701

We consider a bilateral monopoly where a linear input price is determined by Nash bargaining. We show with an increasing marginal cost of input production that vertical integration reduces consumer surplus and welfare compared to bilateral monopoly i... Read More about Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining.

Complementary inputs, outsourcing and vertical integration: Price versus quantity competition (2024)
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Mukherjee, A., & Senalp, B. (2024). Complementary inputs, outsourcing and vertical integration: Price versus quantity competition. Manchester School, 92(5), 578-611. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12480

We compare the effects of price and quantity competition in an industry with complementary inputs, outsourcing and a vertically integrated firm where vertical integration occurs between a final goods producer and a subset of input suppliers. The prof... Read More about Complementary inputs, outsourcing and vertical integration: Price versus quantity competition.

Pro-competitive merger under R&D revisited (2024)
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Mukherjee, A., & Ray, A. (2024). Pro-competitive merger under R&D revisited. Economics Letters, 239, Article 111727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111727

Mergers may increase process innovation and become pro-competitive compared to non-cooperation if firms cannot observe rivals' R&D investments. Hence, the antitrust authorities may not need to be overly concerned about mergers when R&D investments ar... Read More about Pro-competitive merger under R&D revisited.

Bertrand-Cournot profit reversal in a vertical structure with cross ownership (2024)
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Mukherjee, A., Wang, L. F., & Sun, J. (2024). Bertrand-Cournot profit reversal in a vertical structure with cross ownership. Economics Letters, 238, Article 111681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111681

We provide a new reason for Bertrand-Cournot profit reversal. In a two-tier industry with a profit-maximising input supplier and symmetric final good producers, we show that the profit reversal occurs under passive cross ownership among firms.

Downstream cross-holdings and upstream R&D: A comment (2024)
Journal Article
Jin, Y., Mukherjee, A., & Zeng, C. (2024). Downstream cross-holdings and upstream R&D: A comment. Journal of Industrial Economics, https://doi.org/10.1111/joie.12391

According to Hu et al. [Journal of Industrial Economics, 70(3), pp. 775–789], downstream cross-holdings are permissible based on the social welfare standard if the investment technology in the upstream sector is highly inefficient. However, the concl... Read More about Downstream cross-holdings and upstream R&D: A comment.

Cross ownership and merger under technology adoption (2024)
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Mukherjee, A. (2024). Cross ownership and merger under technology adoption. Indian Growth and Development Review, 17(2), 224-231. https://doi.org/10.1108/IGDR-10-2023-0162

Purpose: This paper aims to consider the effects of a merger on technology adoption and welfare in the presence of passive cross ownership. Merger increases investments in process technology and may increase welfare. The results are important for ant... Read More about Cross ownership and merger under technology adoption.

Losses from horizontal merger and collusion (2024)
Journal Article
Beladi, H., & Mukherjee, A. (2024). Losses from horizontal merger and collusion. Journal of Economics, 142, 277-289. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-024-00857-y

We show that the implications of a merger on collusion sustainability change significantly from the extant literature if merger is not profitable in the punishment subgame where firms play non-cooperative Cournot-Nash game. Merger either does not aff... Read More about Losses from horizontal merger and collusion.

Privatization and innovation in a vertical structure (2024)
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Wu, X., Mukherjee, A., & Zeng, C. (2024). Privatization and innovation in a vertical structure. China Economic Review, 84, Article 102139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102139

We investigate how upstream privatization affects downstream R&D investments and social welfare in a vertically-related industry with an upstream monopolistic firm and two downstream firms. One of the downstream firms can undertake R&D investments to... Read More about Privatization and innovation in a vertical structure.

Licensing option to reduce rent extraction by the input supplier (2024)
Journal Article
Kao, K., & Mukherjee, A. (2024). Licensing option to reduce rent extraction by the input supplier. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 26(1), Article e12682. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12682

It is well known that if the final goods producers adopt new technologies, the input suppliers with market power can extract more rent from the final goods producers by increasing the input prices. Higher rent extraction by the input supplier neither... Read More about Licensing option to reduce rent extraction by the input supplier.

Bertrand-Cournot profit reversal under non-commitment process innovation (2024)
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Zhang, Q., Wang, L. F., & Mukherjee, A. (2024). Bertrand-Cournot profit reversal under non-commitment process innovation. Manchester School, 92(4), 371-382. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12471

We provide a new reason for Bertrand-Cournot profit reversal. In a symmetric oligopoly, we show that firms get higher profits under Bertrand competition compared to Cournot competition under non-commitment process innovation if the products are suffi... Read More about Bertrand-Cournot profit reversal under non-commitment process innovation.

Cooperative R&D for a New Product under Convex Production Costs (2024)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A. (2024). Cooperative R&D for a New Product under Convex Production Costs. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, https://doi.org/10.1628/jite-2024-0001

The role of knowledge spillover for cooperative research and development (R&D), where firms commit before R&D about sharing R&D outcomes and choosing joint profit maximising R&D investments, is well known. In a duopoly model of product innovation wit... Read More about Cooperative R&D for a New Product under Convex Production Costs.

Welfare reducing licensing by an outside innovator (2024)
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Mukherjee, A., & Sinha, U. B. (2024). Welfare reducing licensing by an outside innovator. Economic Theory Bulletin, 12, 17-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40505-023-00259-1

It is commonly believed that licensing of cost reducing technology increases welfare. We show that technology licensing by an outside innovator may reduce welfare when the technology is not useful for all final goods producers. Technology licensing r... Read More about Welfare reducing licensing by an outside innovator.