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		| Hikaru  Ogawa and Ming Hsin  Lin | 
	
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		| ''Cost reducing incentives in a mixed duopoly market'' | 
	
		| ( 2005, Vol. 12 No.6 ) | 
	
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		| This note studies the cost-reducing incentives in a mixed duopoly market. The result shows that while a profit-maximizing private firm carries out the cost-reducing investment, a social welfare-maximizing firm does not have an incentive to reduce its costs as long as the market share of the private firm is sufficiently large. | 
	
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		| Keywords: cost-reducing innovation | 
	
		| JEL: L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance: General L3 - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise: General
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		| | Manuscript Received : Nov 25 2004 |  | Manuscript Accepted : Jan 26 2005 | 
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