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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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The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) as an Evolutionary Learning Process

Ania, Ana B.; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2009

We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...

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Choosing Intellectual Protection: Imitation, Patent Strength and Licensing

Encaoua, David; Lefouili, Yassine - CESifo - 2006

This paper investigates the choice of an intellectual protection regime for a process innovation. We set up a multi-stage model in which choosing between patent and trade secrecy is affected by three parameters : the patent strength defined as the probability that the right is upheld by the...

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Imitation and the Evolution of Walrasian Behavior: Theoretically Fragile but Behaviorally Robust

Apesteguia, Jose; Huck, Steffen; Oechssler, Jörg; … - CESifo - 2008

A well-known result by Vega-Redondo (1997) implies that in symmetric Cournot oligopoly, imitation leads to the …

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Imitation - Theory and Experimental Evidence

Alpesteguia, Jose; Huck, Steffen; Oechssler, Jörg - CESifo - 2003

We introduce a generalized theoretical approach to study imitation models and subject themodels to rigorous … experimental testing. In our theoretical analysis we find that the differentpredictions of previous imitation models are due to … the generalized imitation model predicts the differences betweentreatments well. The data also provide support for …

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Technological Imitation and Innovation in New European Union Markets

Uzagalieva, Ainura; Kocenda, Evžen; Menezes, Antonio - CESifo - 2010

We analyze the role of imitation and innovation in promoting technological progress in new members of European Union …: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The two modes of technological development—innovation and imitation …

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

Mosel, Malte - CESifo - 2010

Recent empirical studies suggest a need for a flexible patent regime responding to industry characteristics. In practice, sector-specific modifications of patent strength already exist but lack theoretical foundation. This paper intends to make up for this neglect by scrutinizing in what...

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Reputational Herding in Financial Markets: A Laboratory Experiment

Roider, Andreas; Voskort, Andrea - CESifo - 2015

We study reputational herding in financial markets in a laboratory experiment. In the spirit of Dasgupta and Prat (2008), career concerns are introduced in a sequential asset market, where wages for investors are set by subjects in the role of employers. Employers can observe investment...

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