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Managerial Delegation, Cost Asymmetry and Social Efficiency of Entry (2013)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A., & Tsai, Y. (2014). Managerial Delegation, Cost Asymmetry and Social Efficiency of Entry. Economic Record, 90(288), 90-97. doi:10.1111/1475-4932.12079

This article examines the welfare implications of entry in oligopolistic markets with separation of management from ownership. In the presence of strategic managerial delegation and cost asymmetry, entry is socially insufficient unless the degree of... Read More about Managerial Delegation, Cost Asymmetry and Social Efficiency of Entry.

Patent protection under endogenous product differentiation (2013)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A. (2014). Patent protection under endogenous product differentiation. Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, 21(1), 78-93. doi:10.1080/16081625.2014.858389

It is generally believed that, if weak patent protection does not affect innovation, it makes consumers and society better off compared to strong patent protection by increasing the intensity of competition. We show that this conclusion may not be va... Read More about Patent protection under endogenous product differentiation.

Entry, profit and welfare under asymmetric R&D costs: entry, profit and welfare (2013)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A., & Ray, A. (2014). Entry, profit and welfare under asymmetric R&D costs: entry, profit and welfare. Manchester School, 82(3), 284-295. doi:10.1111/manc.12015

We show the effects of entry of a new firm on the profits and welfare when the firms share the same initial cost of production but differ in terms of the costs of undertaking R&D. Considering a Cournot oligopoly model with innovation and linear deman... Read More about Entry, profit and welfare under asymmetric R&D costs: entry, profit and welfare.

Can cost asymmetry be a rationale for privatisation? (2013)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A., & Sinha, U. B. (2014). Can cost asymmetry be a rationale for privatisation?. International Review of Economics and Finance, 29, 497-503. doi:10.1016/j.iref.2013.07.010

Cost asymmetries between the public and the private firms create a rationale for privatising the public firms. We show that this argument is restrictive, since it does not allow for other ways of reducing production inefficiency, which creates the mo... Read More about Can cost asymmetry be a rationale for privatisation?.

Technology licensing in a differentiated oligopoly (2013)
Journal Article
Bagchi, A., & Mukherjee, A. (2014). Technology licensing in a differentiated oligopoly. International Review of Economics and Finance, 29, 455-465. doi:10.1016/j.iref.2013.07.005

A note on the adverse effect of competition on consumers: adverse effect of competition on consumers (2013)
Journal Article
Dinda, S., & Mukherjee, A. (2014). A note on the adverse effect of competition on consumers: adverse effect of competition on consumers. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 16(1), 157-163. doi:10.1111/jpet.12044

It is usually believed that higher competition, implying more active firms, benefits consumers. We show that this may not be the case in an industry with asymmetric cost firms. A rise in the number of more cost?inefficient firms makes the consumers w... Read More about A note on the adverse effect of competition on consumers: adverse effect of competition on consumers.