This paper continues where Kemmerer and Lu (2008) left off, and explores the relationship between royalty rates and market structure among industries. Economists have studied innovation, R&D, and market structure for decades, and also have investigated patent licensing methods across industries....

Previous literature on the effects of disclosing options backdating problems focused mainly on estimating the cumulative and aggregate losses. This paper takes a different approach and investigates the effect of regulatory intervention on companies accused of backdating stock options. An event...