Arijit Mukherjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arijit Mukherjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arijit |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukherjee |
| SIGNATURE | MUKHERJEE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9611-2888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cooperative R&D for a New Product under Convex Production Costs
In a duopoly with a stochastic non-tournament R&D process for a new product, we show that firms may prefer cooperative R&D under convex production costs even if there is no knowledge spillover, thus, providing a new reason for cooperative R&D. Cooperative R&D may increase expected consumer surplus and expected welfare compared to non-cooperative R&D. Convex production costs create the incentive for technology licensing ex post R&D. In the presenc…
Bilateral Delegation, Wage Bargaining, and Innovation
A firm undertakes workers' productivity improving R&D before negotiating wage with the union, where negotiation can take place between their incentivised delegates. Under bilateral delegation profit, R&D and productivity-wage gap all increase, whilst the union's utility decreases, along with the union's bargaining power. However, to secure wage gains from productivity improvements via greater R&D and to ensure Pareto improvement in payoffs, the u…
Mergers of complements, endogenous product differentiation and welfare
The static analysis shows that a merger among complementary input suppliers or complementary patent holders benefits the consumers and the society by reducing the input prices. We show that the effects of a merger of complements are not so straightforward in a dynamic set up with endogenous product differentiation in the final goods market. The merger of complements reduces the total input prices and increases product differentiation. However, wh…
Social desirability of entry in a bilateral oligopoly—The implications of (non) sunk costs
Labor Unionization Structure, Innovation, and Welfare
We show the effects of cooperation among the labor unions with complementary workers on innovation, consumer surplus, and welfare. Although cooperation among the unions reduces wages, it may either increase or decrease the firm's incentive for innovation, and may also make the consumers and the society worse off by reducing innovation. While cooperation (compared to noncooperation) among the unions makes the workers better off, it may not make al…
Endogenous Market Structure, Trade Cost Reduction, and Welfare
We show the long-run effects of a trade cost reduction in an oligopolistic industry. If the labor markets are competitive and the products are homogeneous, a lower transportation cost affects neither consumer surplus nor welfare of the importing country under free entry of domestic firms. If the products are imperfect substitutes, a lower transportation cost may reduce consumer surplus and welfare of the importing country. We also show the implic…
Patent Protection, Southern Innovation and Welfare in a North–South Trade Model
In a North–South trade model, we analyse the implications of southern patent protection on southern innovation, profits and welfare. Southern patent protection may make the northern firm worse off and the southern firm better off by increasing the southern firm's incentive for innovation and affecting the nature of competition in the world market. The impact of southern patent protection on a country's welfare and on world welfare depends on the …
Unionisation Structure and Outward Foreign Direct Investment
We analyse the effects of the unionisation structure on the incentive for outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and on union utility. The incentive for outward FDI is higher under a centralised union than under decentralised unions, irrespective of the number of firms in the industry. If the number of firms undertaking FDI is higher under a centralised union than under decentralised unions, wages and the union utility can be higher under the la…
Deregulation redux: Does mandating access to bottleneck facilities necessarily improve welfare
Unionised Labour Market and Strategic Production Decision of a Multinational
Closed access. This article was published in the Economic Journal and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02183.x
Technology Transfer under Asymmetric Information: The Role of Equity Participation
Technological collaboration coupled with equity participation improves the quality of transacted technology relative to a situation characterised by a pure technology licensing agreement. Such a result is proved in a model of a signalling game with asymmetric information and threat of imitation. Different contractual arrangements involving equity participation with or without up-front fixed fee and/or output-based royalty payments are discussed.
Unionised Labour Market and Strategic Production Decision of a Multinational
Closed access. This article was published in the Economic Journal and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02183.x
Patent Protection, Southern Innovation and Welfare in a North–South Trade Model
In a North–South trade model, we analyse the implications of southern patent protection on southern innovation, profits and welfare. Southern patent protection may make the northern firm worse off and the southern firm better off by increasing the southern firm's incentive for innovation and affecting the nature of competition in the world market. The impact of southern patent protection on a country's welfare and on world welfare depends on the …
Technology Transfer under Asymmetric Information: The Role of Equity Participation
Technological collaboration coupled with equity participation improves the quality of transacted technology relative to a situation characterised by a pure technology licensing agreement. Such a result is proved in a model of a signalling game with asymmetric information and threat of imitation. Different contractual arrangements involving equity participation with or without up-front fixed fee and/or output-based royalty payments are discussed.
Unionised Labour Market and Strategic Production Decision of a Multinational
Closed access. This article was published in the Economic Journal and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02183.x
Deregulation redux: Does mandating access to bottleneck facilities necessarily improve welfare
Unionisation Structure and Outward Foreign Direct Investment
We analyse the effects of the unionisation structure on the incentive for outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and on union utility. The incentive for outward FDI is higher under a centralised union than under decentralised unions, irrespective of the number of firms in the industry. If the number of firms undertaking FDI is higher under a centralised union than under decentralised unions, wages and the union utility can be higher under the la…
Patent Protection, Southern Innovation and Welfare in a North–South Trade Model
In a North–South trade model, we analyse the implications of southern patent protection on southern innovation, profits and welfare. Southern patent protection may make the northern firm worse off and the southern firm better off by increasing the southern firm's incentive for innovation and affecting the nature of competition in the world market. The impact of southern patent protection on a country's welfare and on world welfare depends on the …
Endogenous Market Structure, Trade Cost Reduction, and Welfare
We show the long-run effects of a trade cost reduction in an oligopolistic industry. If the labor markets are competitive and the products are homogeneous, a lower transportation cost affects neither consumer surplus nor welfare of the importing country under free entry of domestic firms. If the products are imperfect substitutes, a lower transportation cost may reduce consumer surplus and welfare of the importing country. We also show the implic…
Labor Unionization Structure, Innovation, and Welfare
We show the effects of cooperation among the labor unions with complementary workers on innovation, consumer surplus, and welfare. Although cooperation among the unions reduces wages, it may either increase or decrease the firm's incentive for innovation, and may also make the consumers and the society worse off by reducing innovation. While cooperation (compared to noncooperation) among the unions makes the workers better off, it may not make al…
Social desirability of entry in a bilateral oligopoly—The implications of (non) sunk costs
Mergers of complements, endogenous product differentiation and welfare
The static analysis shows that a merger among complementary input suppliers or complementary patent holders benefits the consumers and the society by reducing the input prices. We show that the effects of a merger of complements are not so straightforward in a dynamic set up with endogenous product differentiation in the final goods market. The merger of complements reduces the total input prices and increases product differentiation. However, wh…
Cooperative R&D for a New Product under Convex Production Costs
In a duopoly with a stochastic non-tournament R&D process for a new product, we show that firms may prefer cooperative R&D under convex production costs even if there is no knowledge spillover, thus, providing a new reason for cooperative R&D. Cooperative R&D may increase expected consumer surplus and expected welfare compared to non-cooperative R&D. Convex production costs create the incentive for technology licensing ex post R&D. In the presenc…
Bilateral Delegation, Wage Bargaining, and Innovation
A firm undertakes workers' productivity improving R&D before negotiating wage with the union, where negotiation can take place between their incentivised delegates. Under bilateral delegation profit, R&D and productivity-wage gap all increase, whilst the union's utility decreases, along with the union's bargaining power. However, to secure wage gains from productivity improvements via greater R&D and to ensure Pareto improvement in payoffs, the u…
Economics (10 works) · Merger and Competition Analysis (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Market economy (6 works) · Global trade and economics (5 works) · Microeconomics (5 works) · Welfare (5 works) · Industrial organization (4 works) · International economics (4 works) · Macroeconomics (4 works)