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Cross‐licensing and competition.

Abstract: We analyze the competitive effects of bilateral cross‐licensing agreements in a setting with many competing firms. We show that firms can sustain the monopoly outcome if they can sign unconstrained bilateral cross‐licensing contracts. This result is robust to increasing the number of firms...

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Published in:RAND Journal of Economics (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 656 - 672
Main Authors: Jeon, Doh‐Shin, Lefouili, Yassine
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Fall2018
Subjects:
Economic competition
Monopoly capitalism
License agreements
Royalties (Copyright)
Licensed products
Antitrust law
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