TY  - JOUR
AU  - Chiao,Benjamin
AU  - Lerner,Josh
AU  - Tirole,Jean
TI  - The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations: An Empirical Analysis
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11156
PY  - 2005
Y2  - February 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11156
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11156.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Benjamin Chiao
University of Michigan
E-Mail: benjamin.chiao@gmail.com

Josh Lerner
Harvard Business School
Rock Center 214
Boston, MA 02163
Tel: 617/495-6065
Fax: 617/496-7357
E-Mail: jlerner@hbs.edu

Jean Tirole
Institut d'Economie Industrielle
Bureau MF529 - Bat. F
21 allees de Brienne
31000 Toulouse
FRANCE
Tel: 33-561-128642
E-Mail: tirole@cict.fr
AB  - This paper empirically explores the procedures employed by standard-setting organizations. Consistent with Lerner-Tirole (2004), we find (a) a negative relationship between the extent to which an SSO is oriented to technology sponsors and the concession level required of sponsors and (b) a positive correlation between the sponsor-friendliness of the selected SSO and the quality of the standard. We also develop and test two extensions of the earlier model: the presence of provisions mandating royalty-free licensing is negatively associated with disclosure requirements, and when there are only a limited number of SSOs, the relationship between concessions and user friendliness is weaker.
ER  -