| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 981629 | Procedia Economics and Finance | 2014 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of the firms’ behavior in the product market on their decisions at the R&D stage. We compare the consequences of the Stackelberg-type competition of two firms for the R&D investments with the situation of a cartelized industry under the assumption of quadratic cost functions. Numerical analysis shows that the lowest values of R&D efforts occur when the companies form a research joint venture. Moreover, greater R&D expenditures can be observed when a research joint venture is formed in a cartelized industry rather than under a Stackelberg-type duopoly.
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