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Dynamic Protection of Innovations through Patents and Trade Secrets

Belleflamme, Paul; Bloch, Paul - CESifo - 2013

This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize the optimal mix of patent and trade secrets when the...

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated...

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Transfer Pricing: Roles and Regimes

Nielsen, Søren Bo - CESifo - 2014

Against a background of rather mixed evidence about transfer pricing practices in multinational enterprises (MNEs) and …

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Centralized vs. De-centralized Multinationals and Taxes

Nielsen, Søren Bo; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis; … - CESifo - 2005

-centralize its decision structure. Within a simple model that emphasizes the multiple conflicting roles of transfer prices in MNEs …

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Pricing the Transfer of Intellectual Property as a Problem of Second-Best Tax Policy

Richter, Wolfram F.; Breuer, Markus - CESifo - 2015

The adequate pricing of intellectual property (“IP”) for tax reporting is a largely unsettled issue. Transactional profit-based methods are on the rise although only rated as “methods of last resort” by the OECD. This paper focuses on regulated profit splitting and compares this transfer...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Product Complexity, and the Organization of Multinational Firms

Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies how the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) regime in destination countries influences the way multinationals structure the international organization of their production. In particular, we explore how multinationals divide tasks of different complexities across countries with...

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Cutting too Close? Design Protection and Innovation in Fashion Goods

Hackett, Petal Jean - CESifo - 2012

Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...

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Universal Intellectual Property Rights: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara; Paillacar, Rodrigo - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies the incentives that developing countries have to protect intellectual properties rights (IPR). On the one hand, free-riding on rich countries technology reduces their investment cost in R&D. On the other hand, firm that violates IPR cannot legally export in a country that...

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How Many Patents Does it Take to Signal Innovation Quality?

Comino, Stefano; Graziano, Clara - CESifo - 2014

patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only “false innovators” have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, “true innovators” are forced to patent more intensively … reduces the incentives to exert effort in R&D activities. Then, drawing on the signaling role of patents highlighted by the …

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Competition, Imitation, and R&D Productivity in a Growth Model with Sector-Specific Patent Protection

Mosel, Malte - CESifo - 2010

is found that patents ought to be weaker, the more intense competition, the higher R&D productivity, and the more …

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