caa a22 4500 475797922 CHVBK 20180406123729.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01228744 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01228744 Cooperation in R&D and production: a three-firm analysis [Elektronische Daten] [Tarun Kabiraj, Arijit Mukherjee] The paper analyzes, in a model of quantity-setting three firms, the interaction between cooperation decisions at the R&D stage and merger decisions at the production stage. We assume that only two of the three firms are capable of doing cost-reducing research. Two types of cooperative research, viz., the knowledge-sharing agreement and research joint venture are considered. Cost reduction in the case of a successful research joint venture is larger compared to knowledge sharing or independent research, due to possible synergies. We show that allowing mergers can change the organization of the R&D process, and admitting cooperative research can affect the occurrence and nature of mergers at the production stage. Springer-Verlag, 2000 knowledge sharing nationallicence research joint venture nationallicence merger nationallicence innovation nationallicence L13 nationallicence D43 nationallicence O33 nationallicence Kabiraj Tarun Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B. T. Road, 700035, Calcutta, India aut Mukherjee Arijit Faculteit Technologie Management, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Den Dolech 2, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands aut Journal of Economics Springer-Verlag 71/3(2000-10-01), 281-304 0931-8658 71:3<281 2000 71 712 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01228744 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01228744 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kabiraj Tarun Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B. T. Road, 700035, Calcutta, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mukherjee Arijit Faculteit Technologie Management, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Den Dolech 2, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Economics Springer-Verlag 71/3(2000-10-01), 281-304 0931-8658 71:3<281 2000 71 712 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer