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Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2005

This entry for the forthcoming The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Second Edition) surveys the economic analysis of five primary fields of law: property law; liability for accidents; contract law; litigation; and public enforcement and criminal law. It also briefly considers some...

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Patent Laws, Product Lifecycle Lengths, and the Global Sourcing Decisions of U.S. Multinationls

Bilir, L. Kamran - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of patent laws on firms’ global sourcing decisions. I develop a theoretical model of multinational firms’ location and production decisions in the presence of cross-country differences in intellectual property rights and cross-sector differences in the...

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The Value of Intellectual Property Rights to Firms

Greenhalgh, Christine; Rogers, Mark - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2007

of firms and markets. We then survey the available literature on patents, trade marks and copyright to assess the value …

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Compulsory Licensing: Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act

Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2010

Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions without the consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensing after World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the effects of compulsory...

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Restricting Access to Books on the Internet: Some Unanticipated Effects of U.S. Copyright Legislation

David, Paul; Rubin, Jared - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2008

One manifestation of the trend towards the strengthening of copyright protection that has been noticeable during the past two decades is the secular extension of the potential duration during which access to copyrightable materials remains legally restricted. Those restrictions carry clear...

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Foreclosure and Bankruptcy--Policy Conclusions from the Current Crisis

Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2009

The recent episode of rising consumer bankruptcy and increasing foreclosure rates has sparked a lively debate about how to best tackle the crisis in the U.S. housing market. This paper contributes to the debate by providing an explicit model of the interactions of households' decisions to...

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Mitigating "Anticommons" Harms to Science and Technology Research

David, Paul A. - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2011

There are three analytically distinct layers of the phenomenon that has been labeled “the anticommons” and indicted as a potential impediment to innovation resulting from patenting and enforcement of IPR obtained on academic research results. This paper distinguishes among “search...

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Appropriability and Commercialization: Evidence from MIT Inventions

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Goldfarb, Brent; Shane, Scott; … - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2006

functions of appropriability mechanisms, including patent scope and the effectiveness of patents as well as learning, lead time …

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Mitigating “Anticommons” Harms to Research In Science and Technology

David, Paul - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2009

There are three analytically distinct layers of the phenomenon or condition that has been labeled “the anticommons,” and indicted as a potential impediment that patenting and enforcement of IPR may impose on innovative activity. The first part of the paper distinguishes between the layers of...

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Economics of Patent Pools When Some (but not all) Patents are Essential

Quint, Daniel - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2006

Patent pools are agreements by multiple patent owners to license certain patents to third parties as a package, and … often in conjunction with the development of a technological standard. A key distinction made by regulators—between patents … essential to a standard and patents that are suitable substitutes—has not been captured in existing economic models. I present a …

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