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- Title
Unilateral Technology Sharing among Competitors in Markets with Heterogeneous Consumers.
- Authors
Shohei Yoshida; Cong Pan
- Abstract
This paper explains why some firms share their technology with competitors. We consider a Hotelling market where duopolists sell products with different qualities. This market consists of heterogeneous consumers, comprising three groups in terms of their valuations of product quality. We show that when consumers' preferences for product quality are sufficiently heterogeneous, a high-quality firm benefits from sharing quality-enhancing technology.
- Subjects
HOTELS; PRODUCT quality; CONSUMER behavior; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; ECONOMIC competition
- Publication
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
2194-6108
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/bejeap-2016-0173