研討日期

20100522上午10:20 ~ 13:00

研討地點

台灣大學社會科學院   26教室

討論文獻

題目

作者

文獻出處

Tariffs, licensing and market structure

Arijit Mukherjee and Enrico Pennings

European Economic Review

報告人

王羿傑

參加人員

梁文榮    蔡明芳    吳芝文    高國峰    周品旭    張民忠    曾靜枝    張瑞雲    周冰瑤    王羿傑    林晏如    吳宜謙    涂光億    王佳琪    徐奭驊    施姵全    丁虹仁

論文提要

    This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that exclusive owners of an advanced technology are always better off when producing as a monopolist than when competing against another firm. Competition against a less-efficient firm weakens the power that a host country can exert on the incumbent in the form of its tariff policy. We show that this gives a motive for a monopolist to license its technology to another foreign firm. A host country gains more from increased competition if it can induce the foreign incumbent to transfer technology to the host country firm. We show that the host country can do so by tariff commitment.

We also discuss the implications of bargaining under licensing and Bertrand competition in the product market. Hence, this paper qualifies and extends the recent work of Kabiraj and Marjit.

備註

Mukherjee, A., Pennings, E., 2007. Corrigendum to “Tariffs, licensing and market structure.” European Economic Review 51, 1327–1328.