Richard J. Gilbert

Innovation Matters

Competition Policy for the High-Technology Economy

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A proposal for moving from price-centric to innovation-centric competition policy, reviewing theory and available evidence on economic incentives for innovation.Competition policy and antitrust enforcement have traditionally focused on prices rather than innovation. Economic theory shows the ways that price competition benefits consumers, and courts, antitrust agencies, and economists have developed tools for the quantitative evaluation of price impacts. Antitrust law does not preclude interventions to encourage innovation, but over time the interpretation of the laws has raised obstacles to enforcement policies for innovation. In this book,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-262-35862-0
EAN: 9780262358620
Produktnummer: 33563650
Verlag: MIT Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'163 KB
Abbildungen: 16 FIGURES

Über den Autor

Richard J. Gilbert is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division from 1993 to 1995.