研討日期

2012101310:30 ~ 13:00

研討地點

台大社會科學院26教室

討論題目

題目

作者

文獻出處

Competition, parallel imports and

cost-reducing innovation

Changying Lin

Scottish Journal of Political Economy (2006)

報告人

黃品錚

參加人員

黃鴻、梁文榮、林燕淑、王光正、張瑞雲、彭正浩、高國峯、陳金盛、林晏如、蔡明芳、丁虹仁、鍾暳陵、呂得成、周冰瑤、吳宜謙、黃品錚、許至乙、施姵全

摘要

Incorporating parallel imports (PI), we develop a two-country two-firm model which relates to the incentives for cost-reducing innovation. We show that PI may facilitate or inhibit the manufacturers' incentives to innovate. In particular, PI could encourage both firms' innovations. The difference between the manufacturer's profits under successful innovation and failed innovation is either a U-shaped curve or an inverted U-shaped curve in terms of the cost of engaging in PI. As these differences reflect the manufacturers' incentive to innovate, the variations in R&D investment depend on transportation cost, and firms' marginal costs before and after successful innovations.