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To What Extent Should Less-Developed Countries Enforce Intellectual Property?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper discusses a number of issues in the context of the debate on intellectual property in less developed countries (LDCs). It starts by discussing the consequences of IP enforcement in LDCs for global innovation and welfare in poorer countries. It then considers the costs and benefits of...

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Piracy Prevention and the Pricing of Information Goods

Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper develops a simple model of piracy to analyze its effects on prices and welfare and to study the optimal … may be responsible for the control of piracy. We show that copying or piracy might be welfare enhancing because it is a … to finance the development cost via the pricing scheme applied to high valuation consumers. The level of piracy control …

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Welfare Effects of Intellectual Property in a North-South Model of Endogenous Growth with Comparative Advantage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

piracy there are goods that the South will not produce. Piracy will then lead to a reallocation of innovative activity in … dynamic learning externalities than the other goods, and that their share in consumption is small. Thus, whether or not piracy …) from piracy than the South, because monopoly profits eventually accrue to the North, the South may lose more than the North …

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Five Puzzles in the Behaviour of Productivity, Investment and Innovation

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Productivity growth in the United States was considerably faster during 2000-03 than in the boom years of 1995-2000. This ebullient productivity performance raises numerous questions about its interpretation and its implications for the future, and these are stated here in the form of five...

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The Missing Link: The Knowledge Filter and Entrepreneurship in Endogenous Growth

Acs, Zoltán J; Audretsch, David B; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

entrepreneurship as a mechanism that reduces the knowledge filter. A cross-country regression analysis over the period 1981 … entrepreneurship may be an important new approach to promoting economic growth. …

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Taxation and Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurship

Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Soren Bo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

capital-backed entrepreneurship. We also argue that dividend and capital gains taxes on mature firms have important …

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Debt or Equity? The Role of Venture Capital in Financing the New Economy in Germany

Audretsch, David B; Lehmann, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Using a dataset of the firms listed on the Neuer Markt in Germany, this Paper demonstrates that venture backed firms differ from firms with other financial resources, especially debt. Thus, the results of this study provide evidence for the hypothesis that small and innovative firms are more...

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Does the New Economy Need New Governance? Ownership, Knowledge and Performance

Audretsch, David B; Lehmann, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We study the implications of ownership and its induced incentives on firm performance in the ‘New Economy’. Instead of traditional performance we use firm survival on the stock market as the performance indicator. Using a unique data set of all 341 firms listed on the Neuer Markt, the German...

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Sources of Growth: the Entrepreneurial versus the Managed Economy

Audretsch, David B; Thurik, A R Roy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

made a plea for guidance in the era of entrepreneurship, scholars have been slow to respond. The purpose of this paper is … introduced a greater element of entrepreneurship have been rewarded with additional growth. …

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Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results relay when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We argue that firms...

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