The Relationship between Market Structure and Innovation in Industry Equilibrium: A Case Study of the Global Automobile Industry

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Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Year: 2016
Volume: 98
Issue: 1
Pages: 192-208

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We specify and estimate a dynamic game to study the equilibrium relationship between market structure and innovation in the automobile industry. The quality of each firm’s product for the average consumer, the key state variable, is modeled as stochastically increasing in innovation, the dynamic control, which is proxied by patent applications. Equilibrium innovation is a function of market structure, the vector of quality levels of

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RePEc Handle
repec:tpr:restat:v:98:y:2016:i:1:p:192-208
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
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2026-01-25