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Trade liberalization and product R&D in a differentiated duopoly

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  • Hwang, Hong
  • Hsueh, Yi-Shan
  • Peng, Cheng-Hau

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This paper employs an intra-industry trade model with one firm in each country to examine the impact of trade liberalization on firms' incentives to engage in product R&D. We show that trade liberalization may decrease a firm's product R&D if the marginal willingness to pay for the firm's innovation from its home consumers is higher than that from its foreign consumers. This negative relationship between trade liberalization and R&D investments is opposite to the standard result in the literature where the firms engage in process R&D.

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  • Hwang, Hong & Hsueh, Yi-Shan & Peng, Cheng-Hau, 2018. "Trade liberalization and product R&D in a differentiated duopoly," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 34-38.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reveco:v:56:y:2018:i:c:p:34-38
    DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2018.03.015
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    Keywords

    Product innovation; Trade liberalization; Marginal willingness to pay;
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    JEL classification:

    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • L43 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation

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