• Title of article

    Exclusive versus non-exclusive licensing strategies and moral hazard

  • Author/Authors

    Patrick W. Schmitz، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    208
  • To page
    214
  • Abstract
    An upstream firm can license its innovation to downstream firms that have to exert further development effort. There are situations in which more licenses are sold if effort is a hidden action. Moral hazard may thus increase the probability that the product will be developed.
  • Keywords
    licenses , innovation , Private information , Monopoly
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    436349