| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26005 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26005 |
| Antitrust and Innovation: Welcoming and Protecting Disruption | |
| Giulio Federico; Fiona Scott Morton; Carl Shapiro | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-07-01 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The goal of antitrust policy is to protect and promote a vigorous competitive process. Effective rivalry spurs firms to introduce new and innovative products, as they seek to capture profitable sales from their competitors and to protect their existing sales from future challengers. In this fundamental way, competition promotes innovation. We apply this basic insight to the antitrust treatment of horizontal mergers and of exclusionary conduct by dominant firms. A merger between rivals internalizes business-stealing effects arising from their parallel innovation efforts and thus tends to depress innovation incentives. Merger-specific synergies, such as the internalization of involuntary spillovers or an increase in the productivity of R&D, may offset the adverse effect of a merger on innovation. We describe the possible effects of a merger on innovation by developing a taxonomy of cases, with reference to recent U.S. and E.U. examples. A dominant firm may engage in exclusionary conduct to eliminate the threat from disruptive firms. This suppresses innovation by foreclosing disruptive rivals and by reducing the pressure to innovative on the incumbent. We apply this broad principle to possible exclusionary strategies by dominant firms. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization ; Market Structure and Firm Performance ; Antitrust ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26005 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583679 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Giulio Federico,Fiona Scott Morton,Carl Shapiro. Antitrust and Innovation: Welcoming and Protecting Disruption. 2019. |
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| w26005.pdf（515KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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