This paper introduces a price-fixing policy to be applied to software procurement general contractual agreements occurring between customers and suppliers. The price-fixing policy aims at overcoming the limits and problems of “Function Point fixed-price” mechanisms. Basically the policy derives from a practical application of the "Business Function Point" (BFP) technique. Assigning the price of...

Patent licenses are frequently subjected to antitrust scrutiny, especially when they contain restrictions beyond simple fixed fees and royalties. Clauses that fix the price at which a product is sold have proven contentious, upheld by the courts in some circumstances and rejected in others. No agreement has yet emerged on how to reconcile court decisions and economic rationale. We study the eff...

In this paper we compare two mechanisms to regulate a monopoly: fixing a price for the good or service, or fixing the quantity to be produced. We consider an environment of asymmetric information in which the regulated firm has private information about the demand it faces or its costs. We completely characterize the optimal mechanism in both case and compare their performance. The problem is s...