Arbeitspapier

Licensing with free entry

We introduce a fairly general licensing model with an endogenous industry structure - in terms of number of active firms - and general licensing contracts. We show that when the patentee can employ contracts that can condition on market entry or price, it can implement an outcome that yields monopoly profits by awarding the license to a single firm. Furthermore, when the patentee can only use contracts based on the quantities of the licensees, it still captures the entire market via a single licensee, albeit not at the monopoly price. Commonly assumed two-part tariff contracts cannot duplicate this last outcome and yield lower profits. We discuss the welfare implications of various contractual schemes.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 1812

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Rationing; Licensing
Property Law
Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Business Objectives of the Firm
Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
Thema
Patent licensing
free entry
quantity competition

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Doganoglu, Toker
Inceoglu, Firat
Muthers, Johannes
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics
(wo)
Linz
(wann)
2018

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Doganoglu, Toker
  • Inceoglu, Firat
  • Muthers, Johannes
  • Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2018

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