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| Title: | Manipulating Interface Standards as an Anti-Competitive Strategy |
| Authors: | MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K.
Netz, Janet S. |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Citation: | in S. Greenstein and V. Stango, Standards and Public Policy <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/50433> |
| Abstract: | The creation of interface standards enables competition at the level of components, rather than competition in complete systems. Consumers often benefit from component competition. However, the standard-setting process might be manipulated to achieve anticompetitive ends. We consider the conditions under which a standards consortium could impose anticompetitive burdens on the market, and several strategies such a consortium might employ to achieve anti-competitive objectives. We present a new strategy -- one-way standards -- and discuss the conditions under which it can be anticompetitive. |
| Appears in Collections: | Information, School of (SI)
Economics, Department of
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