This paper shows that technology licensing may be socially undesirable. Possibility of licensing increases the incentive for entry and thus, increases competition. If technology of the incumbent and entrant is sufficiently close, licensing-induced entry reduces social welfare. Otherwise,...

Noncooperative games in which each player’s payo¤ function depends on anadditively separable function of every player’s choice variable may be transformedinto an aggregative game, which may be analysed using the conceptof ‘share functions’. The resulting approach avoids the...

This series evidence has been used to analyse the effect of trade on foreign holdings of domesticcurrency. Here we extend a model of currency substitution that incorporates a trade motive forforeigners to hold domestic currency. It uses time series and cross-sectional information for apanel of...