Brocas, Isabelle - In: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy 6 (2006) 1, pp. 1533-1533
obtained, auctions licenses to a pool of producers. Each producer has a private valuation for the license and suffers a … negative externality when a competitor becomes a licensee. We compare the optimal rule for the allocation of licenses and the … inefficiencies: an excessively high price for licenses and a suboptimal dissemination of knowledge, and an excessively low research …