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Antitrust in Innovative Industries

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  • Ilya Segal
  • Michael Whinston

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We study the effects of antitrust policy in industries with continual innovation. A more protective antitrust policy may have conflicting effects on innovation incentives, raising the profits of new entrants, but lowering those of continuing incumbents. We show that the direction of the net effect can be determined by analyzing shifts in innovation benefit and supply holding the innovation rate fixed. We apply this framework to analyze several specific antitrust policies. We show that in some cases, holding the innovation rate fixed, as suggested by our comparative statics results, the tension does not arise and a more protective policy necessarily raises the rate of innovation.

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Date of creation: Aug 2005
Publication status: published as Whinston, Michael and Ilya Segal. "Antitrust in Innovative Industries." American Economic Review 97 (December 2007): 1703-30.
Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:11525
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  • L40 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - General
  • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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