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Disclosure Rules and Declared Essential Patents
Bekkers, Rudi - 2017
Many standard setting organizations (SSOs) require participants to disclose patents that might be infringed by implementing a proposed standard, and commit to license their “essential” patents on terms that are at least fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND). Data from these SSO...
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Antitrust and Regulation
Carlton, Dennis W. - 2007
Since the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act (1897) and the Sherman Act (1890), regulation and antitrust have … operated as competing mechanisms to control competition. Regulation produced cross-subsidies and favors to special interests … antitrust and regulation. Antitrust and regulation can also be viewed as complements in which regulation and antitrust assign …
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The Competition between Competition Rules
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since abolishing this law makes it possible for a single country...
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Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability : Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets
Genakos, Christos - 2011
When will a monopolist have incentives to foreclose a complementary market by degrading compatibility/interoperability of his products with those of rivals? We develop a framework where leveraging extracts more rents from the monopoly market by "restoring" second degree price discrimination. In...
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Evolving Standards for Academic Publishing : A Q-R Theory
Ellison, Glenn - 2011
This paper develops a model of evolving standards for academic publishing. It is motivated by the increasing tendency of academic journals to require multiple revisions of articles and by changes in the content of articles. Papers are modeled as varying along two quality dimensions: q and r. The...
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A Tale of Two Standards : Patent Pools and Innovation in the Optical Disk Drive Industry
Flamm, Kenneth - 2014
approaches to pool organization and licensing policies implemented in these two patent pool examples were associated with very …
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Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings
Simcoe, Timothy - 2014
We measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find...
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Innovating Standards Through Informal Consortia : The Case of Wireless Telecommunications
Delcamp, Henry - 2014
incentives to invest in R&D by internalizing potential externalities. They may also enhance efficiency of standardization by …
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International Standards and International Trade : Empirical Evidence from ISO 9000 Diffusion
Clougherty, Joseph A. - 2014
methodological challenges by measuring standardization via national penetration of ISO 9000, allowing standardization to manifest via …-signaling augmenting country-pair trade. Yet, ISO-rich nations (most notably European) benefit the most from standardization, while ISO …
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Patent Disclosure in Standard Setting
Ganglmair, Bernhard - 2014
In a model of industry standard setting with private information about firms' intellectual property, we analyze (a) firms' incentives to contribute to the development and improvement of a standard, and (b) firms' decision to disclose the existence of relevant intellectual property to other...
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