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Patent protection and threat of litigation in oligopoly
Capuano, Carlo; Grassi, Iacopo - 2018
entrant deviates from collusion, the incumbent can strengthen punishment suing the competitor for patent infringement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818422
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Optimal cross-licensing arrangements : collusion versus entry deterrence
Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko A. - 2018
This paper analyzes optimal cross-licensing arrangements between incumbent firms in the presence of potential entrants. The optimal cross-licensing royalty rate trades off incentives to sustain a collusive outcome vis-a-vis incentives to deter entry with the threat of patent litigation. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873750
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Patent protection and threat of litigation in oligopoly
Capuano, Carlo; Grassi, Iacopo - 2018
entrant deviates from collusion, the incumbent can strengthen punishment suing the competitor for patent infringement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011799562
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A model of vertical oligopolistic competition
Reisinger, Markus; Schnitzer, Monika - 2008
This paper develops a model of successive oligopolies with endogenous market entry, allowing for varying degrees of product differentiation and entry costs in both markets. Our analysis shows that the downstream conditions dominate the overall profitability of the two-tier structure while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951516
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Entry deterrence through cooperative R&D over-investment
Christin, Clémence - 2011
; Collusion ; Entry deterrence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380269
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A model of vertical oligopolistic competition
Reisinger, Markus; Schnitzer, Monika - 2008
This paper develops a model of successive oligopolies with endogenous market entry, allowing for varying degrees of product differentiation and entry costs in both markets. Our analysis shows that the downstream conditions dominate the overall profitability of the two-tier structure while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365845
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Anti-Competitive Conduct, In-House R&D, and Growth
Grossmann, Volker - 2010
Incumbent firms have two basic possibilities to improve their competitive position in the product market: investment in R&D and the creation of entry barriers to the disadvantage of potential rivals, e.g. through lobbying activities, campaign contributions, bribes or the adoption of incompatible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139546
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Exclusive Dealing and Entry, When Buyers Compete : Comment
Wright, Julian - 2009
In a recent paper, Chiara Fumagalli and Massimo Motta (2006) challenge the idea that an incumbent can foreclose efficient entry in the face of scale economies by using exclusive contracts. They claim that inefficient exclusion does not arise when buyers are homogenous firms that compete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155042
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Market Entry, Fighting Brands and Tacit Collusion : The Case of the French Mobile Telecommunications Market
Bourreau, Marc - 2018
incumbents' launch of the fighting brands can be rationalized only as a breakdown of tacit collusion. In the absence of entry the …-end competition made such semi-collusion more difficult to sustain because of increased business stealing incentives. Consumers gained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922086
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Three is still a Party : An Experiment on Collusion and Entry
Goppelsroeder, Marie - 2011
This paper presents an experiment to test effects of sequential entry on stability of collusion in oligopoly markets …. Previous research suggests that the larger the number of firms, the harder it is to sustain collusion. We find that when groups … start off small and the entrant is informed about the history of her group, collusion is easier to sustain than in groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012713807