Dark sides of patent pools with independent licensing

A Ishihara, N Yanagawa - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2018 - Elsevier
This study examines the welfare effects of patent pools with independent licensing. We
argue that forcing patent pools to allow each individual patent holder to license the …

Sequential mergers and competition policy under partial privatisation

T Ebina, D Shimizu - Australian Economic Papers, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We examine optimal merger and privatisation policies in a partially privatised oligopoly with
differentiated goods. We first show that under the subgame perfect Nash equilibrium …

The combination of two tragedies: commons and anticommons tragedies

CH Sun, CJ Liu - Journal of Economics, 2017 - Springer
Under a general constant elasticity of substitution (CES) function, this paper generalizes the
substitution of concurrent possession of a property right—from perfect substitutes to partial …

Endogenous Product Boundary

T Adachi, T Ebina, M Hanazono - The Manchester School, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This study analyzes the determinants of product boundary choice as discriminatory pricing.
Specifically, we consider a model where a monopolist sells a base product with an add‐on …

Non-horizontal mergers with investments into compatibility

G Langus, J Padilla - 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
We set up a model to analyze the effects of mergers between sellers of complementary
components where firms invest in compatibility and can engage in bundling. We consider …