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Assets with "Warts": How Reliable is the Market for Technology?
Palermo, Vincenzo; Higgins, Matthew J.; Ceccagnoli, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Existing research has focused on why and when firms may choose to access the external technology market. Surprisingly, however, less is known about the reliability of the patents attached to these external technologies in the face of litigation. “Weak” external patents expose a firm to the...
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Patent Pools and the Direction of Innovation - Evidence from the 19th-century Sewing Machine Industry
Moser, Petra; Lampe, Ryan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
that pools encourage innovation in pool technologies, albeit at the cost of innovation in substitutes. Empirical evidence … innovations by new firms for a historical pool in the sewing machine industry (1856-1877) to examine effects on innovation …. Contrary to theoretical predictions, this analysis suggests that pools may discourage innovation in pool technologies and shift …
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Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment
Blake, Tom; Nosko, Chris; Tadelis, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Internet advertising has been the fastest growing advertising channel in recent years with paid search ads comprising the bulk of this revenue. We present results from a series of large scale field experiments done at eBay that were designed to measure the causal effectiveness of paid search...
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Testing out Contractual Incompleteness: Evidence from Soccer
Comin, Diego; Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
The theory of incomplete contracting is rival to that of complete contracting as a frame of reference to understand contractual relationships. Both approaches rest upon diametrically opposed postulates and lead to very different policy conclusions. From a theoretical viewpoint, scrutiny of the...
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Managing Licensing in a Market for Technology
Arora, Ashish; Fosfuri, Andrea; Roende, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Over the last decade, companies have paid greater attention to the management of their intellectual assets. We build a model that helps understand how licensing activity should be organized within large corporations. More specifically, we compare decentralization--where the business unit using...
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Patent Laws and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History
Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic … existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction - as opposed to the rate … innovations in developing countries, discourage innovation in the developing countries? This essay summarizes results of existing …
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Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; Stanton, Christopher T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic...
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Outside Purchase Contracts, Human Capital and Firm Capital Structure
Phillips, Gordon M.; Moon, S. Katie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We examine the impact of outside purchase contracts on firm risk and firm capital structure. We find that firms with more outside purchase contracts have less risky cash flows. Despite these less risky cash flows, firms with these contracts also have less financial leverage especially when they...
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Factoryless Goods Producers in the US
Bernard, Andrew B.; Fort, Teresa C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper documents the extent and characteristics of plants and firms in the US that are outside the manufacturing sector according to official government statistics but nonetheless are heavily involved in activities related to the production of manufactured goods. Using new data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951289
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Behind the Scenes: Sources of Complementarity in R&D
Ceccagnoli, Marco; Higgins, Matthew J.; Palermo, Vincenzo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
investments through the structural estimation of a flexible innovation production function, such as the translog. Our empirical …
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