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Estimates of the Value of Patent Rights in European Countries During thePost-1950 Period
Schankerman, Mark - 1985
This paper examines the distribution of the values of patent rights in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany during … alternative ages and the renewal fee schedules to produce estimates of the distribution (and the total) value of patent rights in … changes over the period. The empirical results of particular interest concern: the total value of patent rights and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477430
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Econometric Models for Count Data with an Application to the Patents-R&D Relationship
Hausman, Jerry A. - 1984
industry dummy, removes most of the positive correlation between the individual firm propensity to patent and its R&D intensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477612
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International Business Travel and Technology Sourcing
Hovhannisyan, Nune - 2019
business travelers heading to the United States. Using European regional patent data for the years 1996 to 2010 from Eurostat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479811
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International Innovation and Diffusion of Air Pollution Control Technologies : The Effects of NOX and SO2 Regulation in the US, Japan, and Germany
Popp, David - 2004
Using patent data from the United States, Japan, and Germany, this paper examines both the innovation and diffusion of … regulations later nonetheless purchase pollution abatement equipment from domestic firms. However, patent citation data from the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468050
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International Business Travel : An Engine of Innovation?
Hovhannisyan, Nune - 2011
While it is well known that managers prefer in-person meetings for negotiating deals and selling their products, face-to-face communication may be particularly important for the transfer of technology because technology is best explained and demonstrated in person. This paper studies the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461557
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Political Constraints and Sovereign Default
Azzimonti, Marina; Mitra, Nirvana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study how political constraints, characterized by the degree of flexibility to choose fiscal policy, affect the probability of sovereign default. To that end, we relax the assumption that policymakers always repay their debt in the dynamic model of fiscal policy developed by Battaglini and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814442
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Preventing a National Debt Explosion
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2010
The projected path of the U.S. national debt is the major challenge facing American economic policy. Without changes in tax and spending rules, the national debt will rise from 62 percent of GDP now to more than 100 percent of GDP by the end of the decade and nearly twice that level within 25...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462206
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Electoral Accountability and Corruption : Evidence from the Audits of Local Governments
Ferraz, Claudio - 2009
Political institutions can affect corruption. We use audit reports from an anti-corruption program in Brazil to construct new measures of political corruption in local governments and test whether electoral accountability affects the corruption practices of incumbent politicians. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463711
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Federal Budget Rules : The US Experience
Auerbach, Alan J. - 2008
In this paper, I review US federal budget rules and present some evidence on their possible effects. From an analysis of how components of the federal budget behaved under the different budget regimes, it appears that the rules did have some effects, rather than simply being statements of policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464358
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Do Balanced Budget Rules Work? U.S. Experience and Possible Lessons for the EMU
Inman, Robert P. - 1996
The `Excessive Deficit Procedure' of the Maastricht Treaty on Economic and Monetary Union proposes two fiscal convergence conditions for entry and continued membership in the EMU: 1) a country's overall budget deficit for each fiscal year must be equal to or below 3% of GDP, and 2) a country's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472990