the model, a strengthening of IPR protection in the South raises an MNE's profit and stimulates inward FDI and licensing …

We model an innovator's choice of payment scheme and duration as a joint decision in a multi-period licensing game with …-consistency problem faced by the innovator. Our results suggest that licensing contracts based on royalty have a longer duration than …

: as patents that infringe on prior art, as licensing through an optimally designed ever-growing patent pool, and as …

Licensing can be a solution for hold-up in patent thickets. In this paper we study whether licensing is an effective … solution for hold-up. To do this we distinguish between ex ante and ex post licensing. A theoretical model shows that firms …’ expectations of blocking in a patent thicket determine whether they license ex ante while ex post licensing arises if expected …

This note gives a short proof that both fixed-fee and royalty licensing under patent protection can always create …

, technology licensing, confidential agreement etc. how can all these issues be resolved before or during collaboration, so that a …

investment and patenting, and controlling for direct licensing of foreign technologies. Furthermore, it contrasts these effects …. The effect of foreign patenting is larger in developed nations while imports, inward FDI and foreign technology licensing …

We analyze a two-period licensing game in which a non-producer upstream patent holder licenses an innovation to either …