研討日期	2014年6月28日10:30 ~ 13:00
研討地點	台大社會科學院26教室
題目	Market Competition, R&D and Firm Profits in Asymmetric Oligopoly
作者	Junichiro Ishida, Toshihiro Matsumura and Noriaki Matsushima
文獻出處	JIE(2011)
報告人	施姵全
參加人員	梁文榮、林燕淑、陳宏易、曹古駒、林晏如、王佳琪、蔡明芳、呂得成、鍾暳陵、丁虹仁、王羿傑、吳尚弈、呂雅媛、施姵全
摘要	We investigate a Cournot model with strategic R&D investments wherein efficient low-cost firms compete against less efficient high-cost firms. We find that an increase in the number of high-cost firms can stimulate R&D by the low-cost firms, while it always reduces R&D by the high-cost firms. More importantly, this force can be strong enough to compensate for the loss that arises from more intense market competition: the low-cost firms’ profits may indeed increase with the number of high-cost firms. An implication of this result is far-reaching, as it gives low-cost firms an incentive to help, rather than harm, high-cost competitors. We relate this implication to a practice known as open knowledge disclosure, especially Ford’s strategy of disclosing its know-how publicly and extensively at the beginning of the 20th century.