...cases, complaints lodged with competition authorities, and attempts by members of Standard-Setting Organizations (“SSOs”) to have their rules and procedures modified to prevent allegedly anti-competitive outcomes. There seems to be...
...of a “race to the bottom” under regulatory competition, (3) the inability of most users of financial reports to understand the complex technical issues underlying accounting standards, (4) the possibility...
This paper studies the impact of entrepreneurial decisions regarding standard creation in an oligopolistic market with cooperative R&D investments. Our game-theoretic analysis shows that if standards are open and only...
...data set we empirically examine this hypothesis. We find that the output per contributor in open source projects is much higher when licenses are less restrictive and more commercially oriented....
We analyze governments’ incentives to recognize foreign standards when there are potentially both network effects and conversion costs. When government policy is lim- ited to either recognizing all foreign standards...
The personal computer revolution and the following internet wave have resulted in a large influx of new technology stakeholders. These new stakeholders have a material interest in the technical standards...
...organizations (SSOs)) composed of participants from a given market or industry (electronic components, communications, etc.). They meet to discuss, analyze, refine, and ultimately adopt mutually acceptable standards, which ensure competing...
This paper focuses on the training needed by technical experts and explores the type of academic coursework as well as training that technical experts need in the field of standards...
...coordinated action among competing buyers in an SSO. If a court did find royalty stacking to be a compelling business justification for restraining trade, the remaining legal question would be...
Standard setting can potentially be accomplished in either of two ways: it can be performed unilaterally—as for example is done by Dolby Laboratories, Inc.— or it can be done collaboratively....