Sougata Poddar

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the impact of uncertain demand on firms' capacity decisions when they operate in an oligopolistic environment, and prove the existence of a symmetric subgame perfect equilibrium at which firms are in excess capacity compared with the capacity they would choose in the Cournot certainty equivalent game.

TL;DR: In this paper, the optimal licensing strategy of an outsider patentee as well as an insider patentee in a linear city framework where firms compete in price was considered. And the authors showed that offering royalty is best for an outsider Patentee for both drastic and non-drastic innovations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the optimal licensing strategy of an outsider patentee as well as an insider patentee in a linear city framework where firms compete in price was considered. And the authors showed that offering royalty is best for an outsider Patentee for both drastic and non-drastic innovations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors depart from the standard framework and study optimal patent licensing under Cournot duopoly where the technology transfer takes place from an innovative firm, which is relatively inefficient in terms of cost of production, to its cost-efficient rival.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the interplay between firms' decisions in product development, either joint or independent, and their ensuing repeated pricing, either collusive or Bertrand-Nash, and prove that joint product development and the resulting lack of horizontal product differentiation may destabilise collusion, whilst firms' R&D decisions have no bearings on collusive sustainability if differentiation is vertical.