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The Value of Incumbency in Heterogeneous Platforms
Biglaiser, Gary - 2016
We study the dynamics of competition in a model with network effects, an incumbent and entry. We propose a new way of representing the strategic advantages of incumbency in a static model. We then embed this static analysis in a dynamic framework with heterogeneous consumers. We completely...
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Choosing Intellectual Protection : Imitation, Patent Strength and Licensing
Encaoua, David; Lefouili, Yassine - 2021
-stage model in which choosing between patent and trade secrecy is affected by three parameters: the patent strength defined as the … small innovations are always patented. Furthermore, medium innovations are patented only when patent strength is … sufficiently high. Finally, we investigate a class of licensing agreements used to settle patent disputes between patent holders …
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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation
Haufler, Andreas - 2014
In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government support schemes. We analyze the effects of such policies to subsidize small businesses in a setting where both the risk-return characteristics of the selected innovation project...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067942
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Sin Licenses Revisited
Haavio, Markus - 2012
We analyze attempts to implement personalized regulation in the form of sin licenses (O'Donoghue and Rabin 2003, 2005, 2007) to correct the distortion in the consumption of a harmful good when consumers suffer from varying degrees of self-control problems. We take into account the possibility...
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Vertical Licensing, Input Pricing, and Entry
Bakaouka, Elpiniki - 2017
We explore the incentives of a vertically integrated incumbent firm to license the production technology of its core input to an external firm, transforming the licensee into its input supplier. We find that the incumbent opts for licensing even when licensing also transforms the licensee into...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Exports in Developing Countries
Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - 2021
We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
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Optimal Cross-Licensing Arrangements : Collusion Versus Entry Deterrence
Choi, Jay Pil - 2018
deter entry with the threat of patent litigation. We show that a positive cross-licensing royalty rate, which would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912373
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Competition between Content Distributors in Two-Sided Markets
Bergh, Harald - 2012
We analyze strategic interactions between two competing distributors of an independent TV channel. Consistent with most of the relevant markets, we assume that the distributors set end-user prices while the TV channel sets advertising prices. Within this framework we show that the distributors...
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Market Segmentation in Two-Sided Markets : TV Rights for Premier League
Kind, Hans Jarle - 2013
This paper analyzes market segmentation in a two-sided market that consists of media consumers and advertisers. The analysis is motivated by a European Court of Justice Decision in October 2011, which allowed viewers to take advantage of international price differences and buy access to Premier...
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The Optimal Defense of Network Connectivity
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2016
Maintaining the security of critical infrastructure networks is vital for a modern economy. This paper examines a game-theoretic model of attack and defense of a network in which the defender's objective is to maintain network connectivity and the attacker's objective is to destroy a set of...
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