To "B" or Not to "B" : A Welfare Analysis of Breaking Up Monopolies in an Endogenous Growth Model /

This paper studies the welfare consequences of a government regulation that forces a patented equipment to be supplied by a number of independent producers. On the one hand, such a regulation hurts the value of a patent and therefore reduces activities in the R and D sector. On the other hand, the e...

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Main Author: Xie, Danyang
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/189
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