Interoperability

Technical Standard Setting Organizations and Competition: A Case for Deference to the Market

This paper asks how setting standards affects competition.

What’s in a (Missing) Name? Status and Signaling in Open Standards Development

This paper tests the importance of an author’s identity to publication and readership.

Empirically Testing for Indirect Network Externalities in the LCD Television Market

This paper examines the market for LCD televisions to cleanly identify existing and future network externalities.

Complements Problem within Standard Setting, The: Assessing the Evidence on Royalty Stacking

This papers asks if patents make products too expensive for consumers.

Abusive Pricing in an IP Licensing Context: An EC Competition Law Analysis

This paper looks at how European regulators decide competition policy cases involving intellectual property licensing.

Antitrust and Intellectual Property Rights: Assessing the Link Between Standards and Market Power

This paper looks at recent cases assessing how patents affect competition within a standard setting context.

Global Competition Law and Economics

This book discusses how changing communications services raise trade issues.

Government at the Standards Bazaar, The

This paper offers an overview of government involvement in standards.

Questioning Copyright in Standards

This article asks if the systematic collection of data can be protected by copyright.

An Introduction to the Economics Literature on Standard Setting Organizations

This article summarizes new economic studies of standards setting organizations.