This article empirically explores standard-setting organizations' policy orientations toward technology developers. We find that standards are associated with a larger number of firms declaring to own essential patent that are required for implementing the standards as the issuing SSOs' policies...

An understanding of the interaction between individuals’ activities and travel choice behaviour plays an important role in long-term transit service planning. In this paper, an activity-based network equilibrium model for scheduling daily activity-travel patterns (DATPs) in multi-modal transit...

We analyze the profitability of horizontal mergers in Cournot markets, where firms are divided into two groups based on the extent to which their products are differentiated. We show that both within-group and cross-group mergers are more likely to occur when either products are more distant...