For the reliable communication network design (RCND) problem links areunreliable and for each link several options are … available with dierent reliabilitiesand costs. The goal is to nd a cost-minimal communicationnetwork design that satises a pre …

policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role … of the patent-design literature. In a general-equilibrium model, both incentives to innovate and monopoly distortions …