Competition Policy Center Working Papers:

**CPC Working Papers are available via the list below as well as directly from the California Digital Library (e-Scholarship) Repository (CDL) site:  http://repositories.cdlib.org/iber/cpc/   

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PAPERS FROM 2011 Richard Gilbert (2011) Deal or No Deal? Licensing Negotiations in Standard-Setting Organizations Aaron Edlin, Richard Jennings and Joseph Farrell (February 2011) Freedom to Trade and the Competitive Process PAPERS FROM 2010 Richard Gilbert and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (February 2010) Revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines: Lessons from the US and EU Richard Gilbert (February 2010) A World Without Intellectual Property? Boldrin and Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly Richard Gilbert (February 2010) The Rising Tide of Patent Damages Suzanne Scotchmer (January 1, 2010) Openness, Open Source, and the Veil of Ignorance PAPERS FROM 2009 Richard Gilbert (November 1, 2009) Ties that Bind: Policies to Promote (Good) Patent Pools Richard Gilbert (September 1, 2009) Essentiality Test of Profits for Patent Pools Richard J. Gilbert and Michael L. Katz (June 1, 2007, revised June 2009) Efficient Divisions of Profits from Complementary Innovations   Nisvan Erkal and Suzanne Scotchmer (April 15, 2009, revised from December 2007) Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it, or Bank it PAPERS FROM 2008 Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro (November 25, 2008) Antitrust Evaluation of Horizontal Mergers: An Economic Alternative to Market Definition Suzanne Scotchmer (September 1, 2008) Risk-Taking and Gender in Hierarchies (revised, published) PAPERS FROM 2007 Nisvan Erkal and Suzanne Scotchmer (December 17, 2007) Scarcity of Ideas and Options to Invest in R&D Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro (December 17, 2007) Improving Critical Loss Analysis Richard J. Gilbert and James Ratliff (September 1, 2007) Sky Wars: The Attempted Merger of EchoStar and DirecTV (2000) Richard J. Gilbert and Alan J. Weinschel (September 1, 2007) Competition Policy for Intellectual Property: Balancing Competition and Reward Richard J. Gilbert and Michael L. Katz (June 1, 2007, revised June 2009--see above) Efficient Divisions of Profits from Complementary Innovations Jonathan B. Baker and Carl Shapiro (April 10, 2007) Reinvigorating Horizontal Merger Enforcement Carl Shapiro (March 26, 2007) Patent Reform: Aligning Reward and Contribution Richard J. Gilbert (January 27, 2007) Competition and Innovation Richard J. Gilbert and Michael L. Katz (January 27, 2007) Should Good Patents Come in Small Packages? A Welfare Analysis of Intellectual Property Bundling Louis Kaplow and Carl Shapiro (January 16, 2007) Antitrust Mark A. Lemley and Carl Shapiro (January 10, 2007) Patent Hold-Up and Royalty Stacking Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro (January 1, 2007) How Strong Are Weak Patents?   PAPERS FROM 2006 Michael R. Baye, J. Rupert J. Gatti, Paul Kattuman, and John Morgan (November 1, 2006) Clicks, Discontinuities, and Firm Demand Online Markus K. Brunnermeier and John Morgan (October 3, 2006) Clock Games: Theory and Experiments Jennifer Brown and John Morgan (October 1, 2006) How much is a Dollar Worth? Tipping versus Equilibrium Coexistence on Competing Online Auction Sites Tanjim Hossain and John Morgan (September 1, 2006) Shrouded Attributes and Information Suppression: Evidence from Field Experiments Carl Shapiro (August 1, 2006) Injunctions, Hold-Up, and Patent Royalties Benjamin E. Hermalin and Michael L. Katz (July 31, 2006) Customer or Complementor? Intercarrier Compensation with Two-Sided Benefits Benjamin E. Hermalin and Michael L. Katz (July 28, 2006) The Economics of Product-Line Restrictions With an Application to the Network Neutrality Debate Joseph Farrell and Michael L. Katz (July 20, 2006) The Economics of Welfare Standards in Antitrust Richard J. Gilbert (June 1, 2006) Dollars for Genes: Revenue Generation by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Joseph Farrell and Paul Klemperer (May 1, 2006) Coordination and Lock-In: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects Severin Borenstein and Joseph Farrell (January 31, 2006) Do Investors Forecast Fat Firms? Evidence from the Gold Mining Industry   PAPERS FROM 2005 Mark Schankerman and Suzanne Scotchmer (December 28, 2005) Still Looking for Lost Profits: The Case of Horizontal Competition Carl Shapiro (December 1, 2005) Prior User Rights Richard J. Gilbert and Michael H. Riordan (November 1, 2005) Product Improvement and Technological Tying in a Winner-Take-All Market Richard J. Gilbert and Alan J. Weinschel (August 1, 2005) Competition Policy for Intellectual Property: Balancing Competition and Reward Joseph Farrell (March 10, 2005) Deconstructing Chicago on Exclusive Dealing John Morgan and Felix Várdy (February 1, 2005) The Value of Commitment in Contests and Tournaments when Observation is Costly Severin Borenstein (January 5, 2005) U.S. Domestic Airline Pricing, 1995-2004   PAPERS FROM 2004 Michael Baye, RUPERT J. GATTI, Paul Kattuman, and John Morgan (December 1, 2004) Estimating Firm-Level Demand at a Price Comparison Site: Accounting for Shoppers and the Number of Competitors Vijay Krishna and John Morgan (November 1, 2004) Contracting for Information under Imperfect Commitment Michael Baye and John Morgan (October 1, 2004) Brand and Price Advertising in Online Markets Matt Lewis (September 1, 2004) Asymmetric Price Adjustment and Consumer Search: An Examination of the Retail Gasoline Market Mark A. Lemley and Carl Shapiro (July 14, 2004) Probabilistic Patents Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro (March 1, 2004) Intellectual Property, Competition, and Information Technology Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer (February 8, 2004) Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary Between Antitrust Law and Patent Law Richard Gilbert (February 1, 2004) Converging Doctrines? US and EU Antitrust Policy for the Licensing of Intellectual Property   PAPERS FROM 2003 A. Mitchell Polinsky and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (November 30, 2003) Remedies for Price Overcharges: The Deadweight Loss of Coupons and Discounts Joseph Farrell and Philip J. Weiser (September 24, 2003) Modularity, Vertical Integration, and Open Access Policies: Towards a Convergence of Antitrust and Regulation in the Internet Age Roy J. Epstein and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (August 23, 2003) Merger Simulation with Brand-Level Margin Data: Extending PCAIDS with Nests Joseph Farrell (August 22, 2003) Negotiation and Merger Remedies: Some Problems Bronwyn H. Hall (May 4, 2003) Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy Bronwyn H. Hall, Stuart J. H. Graham, Dietmar Harhoff, and David C. Mowery (May 2, 2003) Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Post-grant Opposition Joseph Farrell (April 1, 2003) Integration and Independent Innovation on a Network   PAPERS FROM 2002 Aaron S. Edlin and Alan Schwartz (December 15, 2002) Optimal Penalties in Contracts Aaron S. Edlin and Joseph Farrell (October 2, 2002) The American Airlines Case: A Chance to Clarify Predation Policy Joseph Farrell, Richard Gilbert, and Michael Katz (September 9, 2002) Market Structure, Organizational Structure, and R&D Diversity Richard Gilbert, Karsten Neuhoff, and David Newbery (August 7, 2002) Mediating Market Power in Electricity Networks Stuart J.H. Graham, Bronwyn H. Hall, Dietmar Harhoff, and David C. Mowery (August 1, 2002) Post-Issue Patent “Quality Control:” A Comparative Study of US Patent Re-examinations and European Patent Oppositions Aaron S. Edlin (June 3, 2002) Per-Mile Premiums for Auto Insurance Carl Shapiro (June 2, 2002) The FTC's Challenge to Intel's Cross-Licensing Practices Federico Echenique and Aaron S. Edlin (May 1, 2002) Mixed Equilibria in Games of Strategic Complements Are Unstable   PAPERS FROM 2001 Daniel L. Rubinfeld and Roy J. Epstein (November 1, 2001) Merger Simulation: A Simplified Approach with New Applications Igal Hendel and Aviv Nevo (September 1, 2001) Sales and Consumer Inventory Suzanne Scotchmer (August 2, 2001) The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties Joseph Farrell and Michael Katz (August 1, 2001) Competition or Predation? Schumpeterian Rivalry in Network Markets Robert E. Litan and Carl Shapiro (July 1, 2001) Antitrust Policy During the Clinton Administration Richard Gilbert and Justine Hastings (June 1, 2001) Vertical Integration in Gasoline Supply: An Empirical Test of Raising Rivals' Costs Richard Gilbert and Willard K. Tom (May 3, 2001) Is Innovation King at the Antitrust Agencies? The Intellectual Property Guidelines Five Years Later Richard Gilbert and Michael Katz (May 2, 2001) An Economist's Guide to U.S. v Microsoft Carl Shapiro (May 1, 2001) Antitrust Limits to Patent Settlements   PAPERS FROM 2000 Justine Hastings (November 11, 2000) Vertical Relationships and Competition in Retail Gasoline Markets: An Empirical Evidence from Contract Changes in Southern California David Dranove and Neil Gandal (November 1, 2000) The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War: Empirical Evidence of Vaporware Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro (October 1, 2000) Scale Economies and Synergies in Horizontal Merger Analysis James Bushnell and Frank A. Wolak (May 2, 2000) Regulation and the Leverage of Local Market Power in the California Electricity Market Carl Shapiro (May 1, 2000) Navigating the Patent Thicket: Cross Licenses, Patent Pools, and Standard-Setting Tore Nilssen and Lars Sørgard (April 1, 2000) TV Advertising, Program Quality, and Product-Market Oligopoly Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell (February 1, 2000) Electricity Restructuring: Deregulation or Reregulation? Joseph Farrell and Michael Katz (January 1, 2000) Innovation, Rent Extraction, and Integration in Systems Markets Neil Gandal (January 1, 2000) The Dynamics of Competition in the Internet Search Engine Market   PAPERS FROM 1999 William E. Kovacic and Carl Shapiro (October 2, 1999) Antitrust Policy: A Century of Economic and Legal Thinking Severin Borenstein (August 2, 1999) Understanding Competitive Pricing and Market Power in Wholesale Electricity Markets Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell, and Frank Wolak (July 1, 1999) Diagnosing Market Power in California's Deregulated Wholesale Electricity Market Bronwyn H. Hall and Marie Ham (May 1, 1999) Patent Paradox Revisited: Determinants of Patenting in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry, 1980-94 Aviv Nevo (March 1, 1999) Measuring Market Power in the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry   PAPERS FROM 1998 Amos Golan, Larry S. Karp, and Jeffrey M. Perloff (July 1, 1998) Estimating Coke and Pepsi's Price and Advertising Strategies   PAPERS FROM 1997 Aviv Nevo (November 1, 1997) Mergers with Differentiated Products: The Case of Ready-to-Eat Cereal   PAPERS FROM 1995 Jeffrey M. Perloff, Valerie Y. Suslow, and Paul J. Seguin (August 1, 1995) Higher Prices from Entry: Pricing of Brand-Name Drugs

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