hold excess capacity not for entry deterrence but for getting higher benefit from other business strategy such as licensing …. We show that co-existence of licensing and excess capacity can be found if the marginal costs of the firms are small …

The literature on technology licensing has ignored the importance of market power of the input supplier. In this paper … we examine the impact of licensing in the downstream industry when the firms in the upstream industry have market power …. We show that licensing in the downstream industry can make the upstream industry more competitive. However, licensing in …

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this Paper, we measure the …-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of Health pro- ides an exogenous source of variation in re-licensing outcomes … due to occupational entry restrictions and negative selection into licensing status. We develop a model of optimal license …

incentive for technology licensing under a decentralized unionization structure than with centralized wage setting. Furthermore …, We show that, in presence of licensing, the incentive for innovation may also be stronger under decentralized unions …

&D and past licensing are prime contributors to innovative success. A firm's experience with technology licenses not only …

This paper studies, in a spatial model. optimal licensing policies by first, comparing our results with the standard … (non-spatial) licensing literature, and second, how results are affected if the patent holder can introduce a vertical …

and licensing contracts on environmental technology transfer. Our main finding is that free trade is not always preferable … sign a licensing contract.Even if the licensing does not directly improve the competitiveness of the firm in the developing … country, raising the tariff rate can increase the revenue of the country. In contrast, when there is no licensing agreement …

into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. Controlling for a variety of firm and market characteristics, we … find that firms facing more fragmented IP landscapes are more likely to report expenditures on in-licensing and for those … firms that do incur license costs we find a weak positive association between licensing expenditure and fragmented IP rights …