The Licensing of Patents under Asymmetric Information.

This paper seeks to explain the use of royalty payments rather than fixed fees in the licensing of patents by the presence of asymmetric information. The licensee is assumed to know the value of the patent and makes a single offer of a contract to the licensee. It is shown that there is a unique equ...

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Autor Principal: Beggs, A
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: Elsevier 1992