Why Tie A Product Consumers Do Not Use?

Dennis W. Carlton, Joshua S. Gans, Michael Waldman

NBER Working Paper No. 13339
Issued in August 2007

---- Acknowledgements -----

We thank seminar participants at the University of Melbourne, Thomas Barnett, Justin Johnson and Stephen King for helpful discussions and the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia and the Australian Research Council for financial support. Carlton served as expert adverse to Microsoft and is currently serving as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Antitrust Divisiion, Department of Justice. The views in this paper reflect those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Department of Justice, or any organization the authors have been involved with, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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