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Is Innovation King at the Antitrust Agencies? The Intellectual Property Guidelines Five Years Later

Gilbert, Richard J.; Tom, Willard K. - EconWPA - 2001

would be desirable. We address these questions first in merger cases and then in non-merger cases. …

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Antitrust Policy During the Clinton Administration

Litan, Robert E.; Shapiro, Carl - EconWPA - 2003

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CIRCULAR VARIABLE WORK IN PROCESS

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2002

This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...

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Contesting Contestability and the Efficiency of Wages

Burke, Andrew E.; To, Theodore - EconWPA - 1997

The fundamental contribution of the paper is to contest the view that greater market contestability has non-negative effects on market performance. In a model where employees pose a threat of potential entry, we demonstrate that a reduction in barriers to entry causes no fall in industry price...

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R&D in Duopoly with Spillovers: Evolution and Aspiration Learning

Cabelka, Stepan; Cukrowski, Jacek - EconWPA - 2001

algorithm of social evolution and aspiration learning for asymmetric duopoly is presented. The evolutionary equilibrium in R …&D duopoly with spillovers is presented and analyzed. The results show that strengthening intellectual property rights protection …

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International Trade Policy towards Monopolies and Oligopolies

Kujal, Praveen; Ruiz, Juan - EconWPA - 2003

either chooses a R&D (and output) subsidy, or remains inactive. For a domestic duopoly a government taxes, subsidizes, or …

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The Other Side of Limited Liability: Predatory Behavior and Investment Timing

Bayer, Christian - EconWPA - 2004

duopoly with aggregate demand uncertainty. We find that limited liability and investment irreversibility is likely to produce … obligations in adverse states. However, market conditions themselves become endogenous in a duopoly since the quantity decisions … consequently monopolize the market. Therefore, the model of this paper explains predatory behavior in a duopoly without invoking …

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Workplace location and travel effects from teleworking

Lim, H.N. - EconWPA - 2002

Travel time losses in the Netherlands are likely to get worse in the years ahead if capacity is not added to cope with the demand. This particularly creates problems for business travel, which is characterized by a high “value of time”. In the Netherlands, policy makers have a long-standing...

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The American Airlines Case: A Chance to Clarify Predation Policy

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

and thereby harm consumers in the long run. Modern economic theory has shown how commitment or collective-action problems …

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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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