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Analyzing the Sustainability of Innovation Rent
A firm develops a new production process that reduces its cost to produce one unit of a good from $50 to $40. Before the innovation, the firm and its competitors all sold the good for $70 per unit. After the innovation, the firm maintains the price at $70.
Analyze the following two scenarios:
- Calculate the firm's innovation rent per unit sold, assuming its competitors' costs and the market price remain unchanged.
- Now, suppose the firm's competitors eventually copy the innovation, also reducing their cost to $40 per unit. This increased market competition drives the market price for the good down to $55 for all firms. Analyze what happens to the original firm's innovation rent and explain the economic reasoning behind this change.
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