On tariff and quality innovation in a market with discrete preferences |
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Authors: | Rajat Acharyya Swapnendu Banerjee |
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Institution: | Jadavpur University, India |
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Abstract: | In a market for a quality-differentiated good with heterogeneous set of consumers and a local firm facing competitive imports from abroad, we examine private and social incentives for quality innovation. For differential tariff regime, we show that both the private and social gains increase with the tariff protection for the low-quality segment of the domestic market for any given tariff on high-quality imports. But for some very high costs of innovation, the local firm may not undertake a socially desirable innovation. The pro-competitive effect, on the other hand, ensures that quality-distortion-at-the-bottom occurs only for very high levels of tariffs. |
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Keywords: | F13 L12 L15 |
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