研討日期	2022年9月26日上午10:30~ 12:30
研討地點	國立臺灣大學社會科學院606教室
主講題目 Title of the paper	Right to Repair: Pricing, Welfare, and Environmental Implications
作者 Authors of the paper	Chen Jin,, Luyi Yang, Cungen Zhu
文獻出處 Journal, vol.(issue), pp	MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Articles in Advance, pp. 1–20 http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/mnsc ISSN 0025-1909 (print), ISSN 1526-5501
主講人	蘇家睿
參加人員	蘇家睿、王光正、林燕淑、張瑞雲、梁文榮、彭正浩、黃鴻、許至乙、郭文忠、Bui Dang Long、Suttiwan Suwannajoi、Damiana Simanjuntak、Noya Yukari Siregar、Latasha Barshilia
摘要 Abstract of the paper	The “right-to-repair” (RTR) movement calls for government legislation that requires manufacturers to provide repair information, tools, and parts so that consumers can independently repair their own products with more ease. The initiative has gained global traction in recent years. Repair advocates argue that such legislation would break manufacturers’ monopoly on the repair market and benefit consumers. They further contend that it would reduce the environmental impact by reducing e-waste and new production. Yet the RTR legislation may also trigger a price response in the product market as manufacturers try to mitigate the profit loss. This paper employs an analytical model to study the pricing, welfare, and environmental implications of RTR. We find that, as the RTR legislation continually lowers the independent repair cost, manufacturers may initially cut the new product price and then raise it. This nonmonotone price adjustment may further induce a nonmonotone change in consumer surplus, social welfare, and the environmental impact. Strikingly, the RTR legislation can potentially lead to a lose–lose–lose outcome that compromises manufacturer profit, reduces consumer surplus, and increases the environmental impact despite repair being made easier and more affordable