TITLE:
Licensing Contracts in Hotelling Structure
AUTHORS:
Tarun Kabiraj, Ching Chyi Lee
KEYWORDS:
Technology Transfer, Royalty Licensing, Fee Licensing, Hotelling Structure
JOURNAL NAME:
Theoretical Economics Letters,
Vol.1 No.3,
November
3,
2011
ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the question of optimal licensing contracts in Hotelling structure and focuses on the unique features of this structure in this context. We show that a royalty equilibrium exists if and only if transport cost lies in a specified interval, but the royalty rate can be higher than the amount of cost saving. While fee licensing only is never profitable, the optimal licensing contract consists of both fee and royalty. In equilibrium the market is fully covered with monopolistic goods.