| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP9847 |
| DP9847 Market Outcomes and Dynamic Patent Buyouts | |
| Alberto Galasso; Matthew Mitchell | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-02-16 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Patents are a useful but imperfect reward for innovation. In sectors like pharmaceuticals, where monopoly distortions seem particularly severe, there is growing international political pressure to identify alternatives to patents that could lower prices. Innovation prizes and other non-patent rewards are becoming more prevalent in government's innovation policy, and are also widely implemented by private philanthropists. In this paper we describe situations in which a patent buyout is effective, using information from market outcomes as a guide to the payment amount. We allow for the fact that sales may be manipulable by the innovator in search of the buyout payment, and show that in a wide variety of cases the optimal policy still involves some form of patent buyout. The buyout uses two key pieces of information: market outcomes observed during the patent's life, and the competitive outcome after the patent is bought out. We show that such dynamic market information can be effective at determining both marginal and total willingness to pay of consumers in many important cases, and therefore can generate the right innovation incentives. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization |
| 关键词 | Buyout Innovation Mechanism design Patents |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9847 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538681 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alberto Galasso,Matthew Mitchell. DP9847 Market Outcomes and Dynamic Patent Buyouts. 2014. |
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