Title
Competition Policy for Industry Standards
Author
Richard Gilbert, Emeritus
Professor
of
Economics
and
Professor
of
the
Graduate
School,
University
of
California,
Berkeley
Date
4/30/2014
(Original Publish Date: 10/1/2012)
(Original Publish Date: 10/1/2012)
Abstract
This paper is a chapter in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on International Antitrust Economics. The chapter surveys issues raised by the development of industry standards, whether accomplished through a formal standard setting committee structure or the activities of a single sponsor. The focus is on the tradeoff between the benefits from standards and possible costs that standards and the activity of standard development may impose on consumers. A particular focus is on the consequences of intellectual property rights for standards.