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Many cultural products have the same nonrival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical difficulties in creation and dissemination. One traditional view says market failure is endemic: societies tolerate monopolistic inefficiency in intellectual property (IP) protection to...
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We investigate how liability rules and property rules affect the incentives to invest in research tools. We argue that …
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Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...
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This article introduces the term “persona rights” as a normative conceptual framework for analyzing the language of regulatory debates around privacy and intellectual property online, mainly from a Canadian perspective. In using the concept of persona rights to interrogate and critique the...
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Glynn Lunney has called ‘copyright’s incentives-access paradigm’ on the one hand, and proponents of what Mark Lemley has … that all uses of copyright works should be capable of being controlled (and so priced) by the right-owner; incentives …-access theorists distinguish between uses the control of which would affect the information producer’s incentives ex ante, and those …
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This paper studies how the introduction of social learning with costs to delay affects coordination games with … incomplete information. We present a tractable noisy dynamic coordination game with social learning and costs to delay. We show … of analogous static coordination games explicates the role of social learning. The analysis is carried out for both …
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We model the coordination of specialised tasks inside an organisation as "attribute matching". Using this method, we … changes. Compared to the U-form, the M-form organisation achieves better coordination but suffers from fewer economies of …
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analyze the optimal chain of command given that different agents have different tasks: some agents are engaged in coordination …
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engineering management. We examine three aspects involved in outsourcing and offshoring, namely, sourcing models, coordination …
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