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Allocative Efficiency and the Returns to Innovation

K. Okumura · 2026 · arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2610.14969 · cited by 0 works (OpenAlex) · open-access PDF

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La innovación cambia el bienestar mediante la mejora de la tecnología y la redistribución de las entradas entre los productores con diferentes marcas. Cuando los productores eligen las marcas de forma óptima, la salida y los ajustes de precios de un innovador no tienen valor privado en el margen, por lo que la redistribución afecta su beneficio sólo a través de las respuestas de otros. Para un innovador pequeño en sus mercados, el cambio en la eficiencia de asignación es del mismo orden que su ahorro de costes pero no llega a su beneficio. Un innovador de proceso se paga su ahorro de costes, renunciando a sus propios y marcos descendentes en la producción añadida. Para las empresas públicas estadounidenses en 2015, estas marcas abandonadas representan un promedio del 26 por ciento de ese ahorro. Para los innovadores que representan el

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Abstract

Innovation changes welfare by improving technology and reallocating inputs across producers with different markups. When producers choose markups optimally, an innovator's own output and price adjustments have no private value at the margin, so reallocation affects its profit only through others' responses. For an innovator small in its markets, the change in allocative efficiency is of the same order as its cost saving but does not reach its profit. A process innovator is paid its cost saving, forgoing its own and downstream markups on added output. For U.S. public firms in 2015, these forgone markups average 26 percent of that saving. For innovators accounting for 56 percent of sales, allocative efficiency rises or falls by more than a tenth of their private return. With estimated spillovers, patenting firms' R&D has a social return 6.24 times its private return.

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Topics: Allocative efficiency, Economics, Innovator, Profit (economics), Microeconomics, Welfare

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