研討日期

20161112日上午10:20~ 12:00

研討地點

台大社會科學院710討論室

主講題目

Market Power of The Input Supplier, Technology Transfer and Consumer Welfare

作者

JIYUN CAO and ARIJIT MUKHERJEE

文獻出處

The Manchester School Vol 00 No. 00 00–00 Month 2016

主講人

曹古駒

參加人員

曹古駒、張博涵、王光正、林燕淑、施全、高國峯、梁文榮、黃鴻、ByeongHwa Choi、詹銘葦、陳怡妏、郭紫瑩

摘要

It is believed that market power of the input supplier, charging a linear price, is detrimental for the consumers since it creates the double marginalization problem. We show that this view may not be true if the final goods producers can adopt strategies to reduce rent extraction by the input supplier. Market power of the input supplier may encourage a final goods producer either to license its technology to a competitor with a cost advantage or to adopt a less distortionary technology licensing contract. Both these effects may create higher consumer welfare under market power of the input supplier compared to a competitive input market.