innovation. We associate the strength of IPR protection with the duration of a country’s patents that are applied with national … a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size and in their capacities for … are patents longer in the North? We also study international patent agreements by deriving the properties of an efficient …

with network effects are well-suited for the analysis of software copying while other models incorporating the feature that …

By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level … causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …

innovation market. If employment protection is introduced, firms’ willingness to pay for product or process innovations increases …. This shifts economic activity towards firms specializing in process and product innovation and triggers entry of new start …

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 … fraction of the innovation once. We also study the optimal dynamic patenting policy in a soft novelty regime, when the …

This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative …