made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced when many firms …

new light on the usefulness of mediation in contracting and on the design of optimal mechanisms. …

This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …

the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can provide specific strategic incentives and …