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Licensing Policy and Technology Adoption in Standard Setting Organizations
Tarantino, Emanuele - 2014
I analyze standard setting organizations' decisions on licensing policy and standard's technological specification, and the ensuing implications for social welfare. I find the conditions under which a licensing rule that grants monopoly power to the licensors whose technology is adopted in the...
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Interoperability Standards, Patents and Competition Policy
Larouche, Pierre - 2015
While the traditional literature and the policy statements concerning standardization as such emphasize the benefits of … standardization, the intellectual property and competition law literature and policymaking has been more critical of standardization …” and “patent thickets”. There is a risk that the discussion of standardization, in academic and policy circles, becomes …
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The Coming of Age of EU Regulation of Network Industries and Services of General Economic Interest
Hancher, Leigh; Larouche, Pierre - 2010
This paper is a contribution to the 2nd edition of Craig and de Búrca, The Evolution of EU Law. It highlights key trends in EU law in the last ten to fifteen years, as regards the regulation of network industries and of services of general economic interest (SGEIs) more generally. Our central...
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The Impact of EU Competition Law on National Healthcare Systems
Sauter, Wolf - 2013
Whereas the EU's internal market rules govern market access and public intervention, its competition rules are concerned with the market conduct of private parties. When do the competition rules apply to healthcare? In principle the scope for application of the competition rules to the...
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The Application of Audit Standards in ECA's Work
Brenninkmeijer, Alex; Debets, Raphael; Hock, Branislav; … - 2018
External auditors, both in the private and in the public sector, are in the business of providing information to citizens and other stakeholders, to decide whether and in how far they can trust in what the audited bodies claim has been achieved. Audits of these auditors are governed by standards...
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Standard-Setting in Services – New Frontiers in Rule-Making and the Role of the EU
Delimatsis, Panos - 2015
-setting procedures may not always be in line with contemporary due process demands. If standardization in goods is vague, standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021283
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Price Commitments in Standard Setting Under Asymmetric Information
Boone, Jan - 2019
Many observers have voiced concerns that standards create essentiality and thus monopoly power for the holders of standard essential patents (SEPs). To address these concerns, Lerner and Tirole (2015) advocate structured price commitments, whereby SEP holders commit to the maximum royalty they...
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‘Relevant International Standards’ and ‘Recognized Standardization Bodies’ under the TBT Agreement
Delimatsis, Panos - 2014
been steadily increasing in recent years. As standardization is a major catalyst to global commerce, The World Trade … international standardization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048143
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The Technical Standardization Ecosystem and Institutional Decision Making : The Case of Intellectual Property Rights Policies
Baron, Justus; Contreras, Jorge L.; Husovec, Martin; … - 2020
In this paper, we analyze decision making on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) policies in the standardization …-generic complementarities and a joint interest in the overall performance of the standardization system, which are constitutive characteristics … of an ecosystem. The standardization ecosystem is characterized by widely shared institutional norms, which – in the …
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Certification and Minimum Quality Standards When Some Consumers are Uninformed
Bühler, Benno; Schütt, Florian - 2012
We compare certification to a minimum quality standard (MQS) policy in a duopolistic industry where firms incur quality-dependent fixed costs and only a fraction of consumers observes the quality of the offered goods. Compared to the unregulated outcome, both profits and social welfare would...
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