This research addresses the question of how many registered trademarks are optimal to protect a brand. By assigning … property rights in brand names, trademarks give firms the ability to protect their brands from free riders. The optimal number … to the brand's owner if infringement occurs. …

system that would rely more on private investment and competition and less on government ownership and regulation. This paper … examines the state of the industry after ten years of reforms, with a focus on competition, tariffs, and private sector …

has commenced a program of electricity sector restructuring, with the announced aim of relying on markets and competition …

developing country is the creation of competition ­ or, alternatively, avoiding the creation or preservation of monopoly power …. In seaports a crucial distinction is often that between intraport and interport competition; in freight railways, between … competition among train operating companies over a monopoly track and competition among vertically integrated railways. In both …

competition policy to protect competitors rather than consumers) threaten seriously to impede economic growth and welfare over …, inconsistent with widely accepted presumptions in favor of inter-firm competition, and unwise, at least under the current state of … of ongoing research. It requires an empirical assessment of the gains from motivating more competition ex ante versus the …

changes may raise important and complex issues regarding the level of competition facing goods shippers, with differing …