The analysis provides conditions under which Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) choose efficient technology … standards. I introduce a two-stage game with both voting and market competition. In equilibrium, standards and market outcomes …

UNECE-compliance models. This then creates additional costs for the foreign firms, who already face stiff competition from …

We investigate private and social incentives for standardization to ensure market-wide system compatibility in a two …-dimensional spatial competition model. We develop a new methodology to analyze competition on a torus and show that there is a fundamental … conflict of interest between consumers and producers over the standardization decision. Consumers prefer standardization with …

This paper proposes a model for a certification market with an imperfect testing technology. Such a technology only …. When only one certifier with such testing technology is present in the market, it is found that this monopoly certifier can … be completely ignored in equilibrium, in contrast to the prediction of a model with perfect testing technology. A …