Mergers of complements, endogenous product differentiation and welfare

DOI10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2023.09.001OpenAlexW4386788513MaRDI QIDQ6204153

Arijit Mukherjee, Tien-Der Han

Publication date: 9 April 2024

Published in: Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2023.09.001

zbMATH Keywords

product differentiationwelfaremergerconsumer surpluscomplementary inputspatent pool

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special types of economic markets (including Cournot, Bertrand) (91B54) Welfare economics (91B15)

Cites Work

• Effects of upstream and downstream mergers on supply chain profitability
• Imperfect competition with complements and substitutes
• Undesirable competition
• Patent policy, patent pools, and the accumulation of claims in sequential innovation
• Product homogeneity as a prisoner's dilemma in a duopoly with R\&D
• Adverse effects of patent pooling on product development and commercialization
• Product differentiation in a vertical structure

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