R&D and strategic industrial location in international oligopolies

dc.contributor.author	Pires, Armando José Garcia
dc.date.accessioned	2006-06-21T09:55:08Z
dc.date.available	2006-06-21T09:55:08Z
dc.date.issued	2005-12
dc.identifier.issn	1503-2140
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11250/166382
dc.description.abstract	In a spatial economy where Oligopolist firms compete in R&D, it is found that geography affects the innovative behaviour of firms. Notably, international differences in market size conduce to endogenous asymmetries between firms given that firms located in the country with more demand have stronger incentives to invest in R&D. This “R&D linkage” between demand and competitiveness promotes firms to strategically delocalize to the larger country. As a result, a spatial equilibrium arises with only total or partial agglomeration, but never with symmetric dispersion.	en
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dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	SNF	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Paper	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	2005:69	en
dc.subject	industrial location	en
dc.subject	oligopoly	en
dc.subject	R&D investment	en
dc.subject	agglomeration	en
dc.subject	R&D linkage effects	en
dc.title	R&D and strategic industrial location in international oligopolies	en
dc.type	Working paper	en