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Intellectual Property Infringement by Foreign Firms : Import Protection through the ITC or Court
Brander, James A.; Spencer, Barbara J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines intellectual property litigation as a method of protection from patent-infringing imports. Claims against patent-infringing imports entering the United States may be filed before the International Trade Commission (ITC) or in district court. The ITC applies injunctions...
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Does Trade Foster Contract Enforcement?
Anderson, James E. - 2008
Contract enforcement is probabilistic, but the probability depends on rules and processes. A stimulus to trade may induce traders to alter rules or processes to improve enforcement. In the model of this paper, such a positive knock-on effect occurs when the elasticity of supply of traders is...
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Does Compulsory Licensing Discourage Invention? Evidence From German Patents After WWI
Baten, Joerg - 2015
This paper investigates whether compulsory licensing - which allows governments to license patents without the consent of patent-owners - discourages invention. Our analysis exploits new historical data on German patents to examine the effects of compulsory licensing under the US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457226
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The Degree of Judicial Enforcement and Credit Markets : Evidence from Japanese Household Panel Data
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2010
In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis of the impact of better judicial enforcement on the probability of being credit rationed, loan size, and the probability of bankruptcy using household-level data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, conducted by the Institute for Research...
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Wall Street's First Corporate Governance Crisis : The Panic of 1826
Hilt, Eric - 2009
In July of 1826, several prominent Wall Street firms abruptly went bankrupt, amid scandalous revelations of fraudulent financial practices by their management. Although mostly forgotten today, these events represented a watershed in the early development of the corporation laws and investor...
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The Rise of the Regulatory State
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2001
During the Progressive Era at the beginning of the 20th century, the United States replaced litigation by regulation as the principal mechanism of social control of business. To explain why this happened, we present a model of choice of law enforcement strategy between litigation and regulation...
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The value-added tax reform puzzle
Cai, Jing - 2011
"We explore the impact of a tax reform in some provinces of China which eliminated the value-added tax on some … induce labor-saving growth. This experiment has since been extended to the rest of China"--National Bureau of Economic …
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The Demand for Medical Care in Urban China
Mocan, H. Naci - 2000
China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health …
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Federalism with and without Political Centralization : China versus Russia
Blanchard, Olivier - 2000
In China, local governments have actively contributed to the growth of new firms. In Russia, local governments have … question then is why this has not happened in China. We argue that the answer lies in the degree of political centralization … present in China, but not in Russia. Transition in China has taken place under the tight control of the communist party. As a …
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Government as a Discriminating Monopolist in the Financial Market : The Case of China
Gordon, Roger H. - 1999
To date, China has maintained a variety of restrictions on its financial markets. In addition to imposing capital … foreign stock markets, and the amount they can sell. China is unique in that foreigners pay much less than domestic investors …
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