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The Welfare Effects of Monopoly Innovation

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Shuntian Yao (Division of Economics,School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Lydia L. Gan (Division of Economics,School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
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In this paper we study the welfare effect of a monopoly innovation. Unlike many partial equilibrium models carried out in previous studies, general equilibrium models are constructed and analyzed in greater details. We discover that, technical innovation carried out by a monopolist could significantly increase the social welfare. We conclude that, in general, the criticism against monopoly innovation based on its increased dead weight loss is less accurate as previously postulated by many studies.

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Paper provided by Nanyang Technolgical University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Economic Growth centre in its series Economic Growth centre Working Paper Series with number 0609.

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Date of creation: Sep 2006
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