Barnett, Jonathan M.; Grolleau, Gilles; Harbi, Sana El - In: The Journal of Legal Studies 39 (2010) 1, pp. 159-200
The fashion market is an anomaly: innovation is vigorous, but original producers are substantially unprotected against imitation. We account for this anomaly through a cooperative innovation model in which producers prefer an incomplete property regime that permits some imitation to alternative...