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Title: Prices under Innovation: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms

Author(s): Jordi Jaumandreu and Shuheng Lin

Publication Date: August 2018

Keyword(s): Innovation, marginal cost, markup and price indices

Programme Area(s): Industrial Organization

Abstract: We study how firms' innovations impact prices with endogenous productivity and markup, under imperfect competition and dynamic pricing. Absent innovation, productivity plus markup changes curb price growth to half of variable inputs cost growth. Innovation's additional impact on costs is negatively correlated with markup changes. We detect two prevalent strategies. When marginal cost goes down, firms cash-in innovation by increasing the markups to enlarge profits. When marginal cost goes u firms practice countervailing pricing by decreasing markups. With no innovation aggregate manufacturing price growth had multiplied by 1.4, but innovation without cash-in strategies had multiplied it by 0.8.

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Jaumandreu, J and Lin, S. 2018. 'Prices under Innovation: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13146