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Shapiro, Carl - EconWPA - 2003

This paper focuses on the class of legal rules that governs intellectual property rights: the antitrust limits imposed on patent settlements. The paper discusses the benefits and costs of settlements and explains why antitrust limits on settlements are needed to prevent abuse of the settlement...

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Does Cyberspace Need Antitrust?

Crampton, Eric; Boudreaux, Donald - EconWPA - 2004

E-commerce may prove a double-edged sword for antitrust enforcement. While the internet massively increases the potential size of the relevant market for any antitrust investigation, thereby reducing the need for antitrust activity, it also opens firms up to protectionist uses of antitrust by...

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The American Airlines Case: A Chance to Clarify Predation Policy

Edlin, Aaron S.; Farrell, Joseph - EconWPA - 2004

Predation occurs when a firm offers consumers favorable deals, usually in the short run, that get rid of competition and thereby harm consumers in the long run. Modern economic theory has shown how commitment or collective-action problems among consumers can lead to such paradoxical effects. But...

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Navigating the Patent Thicket: Cross Licenses, Patent Pools, and Standard-Setting

Shapiro, Carl - EconWPA - 2003

In several key industries, including semiconductors, biotechnology, computer software, and the Internet, our patent system is creating a patent thicket: an overlapping set of patent rights requiring that those seeking to commercialize new technology obtain licenses from multiple patentees. The...

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A Note on Non-Discriminatory Access to Railroad Infrastructure

Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2003

The setting of user prices for enterprises with large fixed costs and marginal costs below average costs – “natural monopolies” – raises important policy questions regarding both efficiency and equity. It has become well accepted among economists that, in a variety of settings, welfare...

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Fractional Reserve Banking as Economic Parasitism: A Scientific, Mathematical & Historical Expose, Critique, and Manifesto

Nuri, Vladimir Z. - EconWPA - 2002

This paper looks at the history of money and its modern form from a scientific and mathematical point of view. The approach here is to emphasize simplicity. A straightforward model and algebraic formula for a large economy analogous to the ideal gas law of thermodynamics is proposed. It may be...

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Russian agricultural credit and subsidy policies in the early 1990s

Galbi, Douglas - EconWPA - 2003

In high income countries, the agricultural sector, like the telecommunications sector, includes well established interests and complex government subsidy and credit policies. Reform in the telecommunications sector greatly affects the leading edge of the economy, and thus job creation, income...

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Endogenous Antitrust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Impact of Competition-Enhancing Policies on Productivity

Borrell, Joan-Ramon; Tolosa, Mara - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of simultaneous antitrust and trade policy on productivity … productivity by as much as 18%. …

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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004

industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence … its own stagnating productivity growth. Moreover, the industry has not yet exhausted opportunities for tackling existing X …

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Reformas Regulatórias e Reestruturação no Setor Elétrico

Pinto, Bruno José Marques - EconWPA - 2005

The paper examines the economic and regulatory factors that led to an explosion in the wholesale power prices, supply shortages, and utility insolvencies in California’s electricity sector. A necessary first step in determining the lessons learned from the California electricity crisis is a...

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