Mukherjee, Arijit - School of Economics, University of Nottingham
auction (or fixed-fee licensing) under convex costs. There can also be conflicting interests between the innovator and the … society about the preferred licensing contract. However, the consumers always prefer auction. It follows from our analysis … that a combination of royalty and fixedfee can dominate both auction (of fixed-fee licensing) and royalty only licensing. …