Title: The rules of standard setting organizations
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Subjects: Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Standardization, Information technology, Mathematical models, Standardization, Standards, Technology