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Rajeev K. Goel, Shoji Haruna

Cost-Reducing R&D with Spillovers and Trade

[D with Spillovers and Trade]
Section: Article
Volume 167 (2011) / Issue 2, pp. 314-326 (13)
Published 09.07.2018
DOI 10.1628/093245611796589997
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Summary
This article incorporates research spillovers and examines behavior of firms in a two-stage, international trade game with process innovation. Governments choose optimal research subsidies in stage 1, and firms take account of the subsidies in choosing research and production in stage 2. Results show that optimal research subsidies differ under spillovers and no spillovers. Strategic responses to foreign research subsidies uniquely occur in cases with spillovers. At certain spillover levels, the optimal R&D policy is a negative subsidy (tax). Findings regarding the effects of trade liberalization support earlier results with perfect appropriability, although the responses to trade liberalization are different with spillovers.