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When Spillovers Enhance R&D Incentives

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  • Rittwik Chatterjee

    (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences)

  • Srobonti Chattopadhyay

    (Vidyasagar College for Women)

  • Tarun Kabiraj

    (Indian Statistical Institute)

Abstract

It is commonly believed that spillover reduces R&D incentives of a firm. This happens because of the appropriability problem. However, some empirical literature shows the possibility of enhanced R&D incentives under spillovers. In the literature this is explained under incomplete information, but we show this theoretically under complete information. We show in particular that in a duopoly there are situations when with no spillovers only one firm invests in R&D, but under spillovers both the firms invest. This occurs when there is complementarity in research and the spillover rate lies in an interval specified by the size of R&D investment.

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  • Rittwik Chatterjee & Srobonti Chattopadhyay & Tarun Kabiraj, 2019. "When Spillovers Enhance R&D Incentives," Journal of Quantitative Economics, Springer;The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), vol. 17(4), pages 857-868, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jqecon:v:17:y:2019:i:4:d:10.1007_s40953-019-00161-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s40953-019-00161-3
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