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By investing in R i.e., the R&D choice that maximizes current profitability does not maximize overall profitability. The result is that if output is sold rather than rented, then in its R&D decision the monopolist has an incentive to practice a type of planned obsolescence that lowers its own profitability.
Michael Waldman (Mon,) studied this question.
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