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A TRAGEDY OF THE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE ‘COMMONS’? Global Science, Intellectual Property and the Digital Technology Boomerang

David, Paul A. - EconWPA - 2005

Radical legal innovations in intellectual property protection have been introduced by the little noticed European Database Directive of March 1996. This initiative, part of the larger institutional transformations initiated in response to the economic ramifications of rapid progress in digital...

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The Digital Technology Boomerang: New Intellectual Property Rights Threaten Global “Open Science”

David, Paul A. - EconWPA - 2005

There is a serious threat that ill-considered government support for expanding legal means of controlling access to information for the purpose of extracting private economic rents is resulting in the 'over- fencing of the public knowledge commons' in science and engineering. Such a new 'tragedy...

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Innovation, Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights

Weinhold, Diana; Reichert, Usha Nair- - EconWPA - 2004

The existing literature on the sources and nature of productivity growth during the early industrialization stages of U.S. has identified the combination of intellectual property rights (IPRs) with a large middle class and broad participation in markets as explanations for the extraordinary...

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Economic Growth with Imperfect Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

Horii, Ryo; Iwaisako, Tatsuro - EconWPA - 2005

The growth effects of intellectual property right (IPR) protection are examined in a quality-ladder model of endogenous growth. Stronger IPR protection, which reduces the probability of imitation, raises the reward for innovation. However, stronger protection reduces the number of competitive...

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Do European computer-related patents increase welfare?

Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2004

When the home country introduces a patent law after the winner of the patent race is known the country's welfare may rise only if the domestic firm wins. If the home country decides before the patent race ends, the welfare may be increased when the probability that the domestic firm wins is...

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The Economics of Open Source Hijacking and Declining Quality of Digital Information Resources: A Case for Copyleft

Ciffolilli, Andrea - EconWPA - 2004

The economics of information goods suggest the need for institutional intervention to address the problem of revenue extraction from investments in resources characterized by high fixed costs of production and low marginal costs of reproduction and distribution. Solutions to the appropriation...

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Measuring China's Fiscal Policy Stance

Dullien, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005

deficit or cyclically adjusted budget deficits is misleading in the case of China, since a lot of what usually would be …-cyclical in China over the past two decades. …

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China's Changing Competitive Position: Lessons from a Unit-Labor- Cost-Based REER

Dullien, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005

This paper calculates a unit labor-cost based real effective exchange rate for China for the period 1987-2002. It …

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China and Neo-liberal Constitutionalism

Killion, M. Ulric - EconWPA - 2004

historicity of Western liberalism and China's ontological base in tradition, being Confucianism. The historic excesses and abuses …This article discusses the probability of growth of neoliberalism in modern China and its implications for Chinese … constitutionalism. A China polity under the vision of a neo-liberal regime engenders problems of prescribing a legal system and …

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Optimal Monetary Policy Rules in A Simple Stochastic Macro Model: China's Evidence

Wang, Shengzu; Guo, Shen - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we apply a simple macro model to explore and evaluate certain optimal monetary policy rules for China …'s economy. To be more consistent with the central bank (the People's Bank of China)'s behaviour, we use money supply as a …

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