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Stability in the patent race contest of Lee and Wilde

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  • Kofi O. Nti

    () (Department of Management Science and Information Systems, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-1913, USA)

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    To determine how expenditure and profits vary with the number of firms in the patent race contest of Lee and Wilde, it is traditional to impose an ad-hoc stability condition on the best response function. This paper relates the stability condition to the standard myopic adjustment mechanism and shows that a concave hazard rate function with non- increasing hazard rate elasticity is sufficient for the analysis. We provide examples and reveal additional qualitative properties of the Lee and Wilde model.

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    Article provided by Springer in its journal Economic Theory.

    Volume (Year): 14 (1999)
    Issue (Month): 1 ()
    Pages: 237-245

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    Handle: RePEc:spr:joecth:v:14:y:1999:i:1:p:237-245

    Note: Received: November 15, 1996; revised version: March 25, 1998
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    Keywords: Stability · Patent race contests · Lee and Wilde model.;

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    Cited by:
    1. Martin Kukuk & Manfred Stadler, 2005. "Market Structure and Innovation Races, An Empirical Assessment Using Indirect Inference," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Department of Statistics and Economics, vol. 225(4), pages 427-440, July.
    2. Marco Runkel, 2004. "Optimal Contest Design When The Designer's Payoff Depends On Competitive Balance," Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2004 156, Royal Economic Society.

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