passing too much of the licensing value through to consumers, which may enhance joint profits. Second, licensing to a rival …-party competition. This is the same problem that arises when a firm buys stock in a competitor. Consequently, even if the royalty rate …

’s effects on competition. Commentators have recently debated the predictability and appropriate structure of the analysis. But … restraint’s effects on competition while taking away the option of balancing anticompetitive and procompetitive effects …

-grant competition will diminish such efforts. This is just a special case of the more general claim that a market will be more … asserts that this post-grant market should involve little or no competition, and infers from this that patents should be broad …. However, economists have long debated the relationship between competition and innovation. A leading view among contemporary …

We analyze competition between data intermediaries collecting information on consumers, which they sell to firms for … price discrimination purposes. We show that competition between data intermediaries benefits consumers by increasing … competition between firms, and by reducing the amount of consumer data collected. We argue that merger policy guidelines should …

mobile termination rate regulation. We find that regulation benefits consumers significantly more than entry does, and that … high-income consumers and city-dwellers benefit more in terms of increased consumer surplus. …

Prime and others have emerged as new suppliers of audiovisual content. In this quickly changing industry, compe-tition … also identify areas where competition intensity between different service types appear to be low, for instance, through …

insurers market their products to consumers based, in part, on the quality and breadth of their provider network. We then … consider competition in health insurance markets and physician services markets. We conclude by considering vertical restraints …

integration between insurers and hospitals, we develop a model of bargaining and competition. Integrated firms have incentives to …