Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22750 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 09/07
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Dresden
Abstract: 
We show that a monopolist final goods producer may find it profitable to create competition by licensing its technology if the input market is imperfectly competitive. With a centralized union, we show that licensing by a monopolist is profitable under both uniform and discriminatory wage settings by the union. However, the incentive for licensing is higher under the former situation. We also show that licensing by the monopolist is profitable under both quantity and price competition, and the incentive for licensing is higher under price competition than under quantity competition. Our qualitative results hold even with decentralized unions.
Subjects: 
Licensing
Labor union
Price competition
Quantity competition
JEL: 
O34
L13
D43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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