In mid-2010, France will open market competition to online gambling and casinos. The market is opening as European law …

international licensing agreements developed with the French Patent office (INPI). As a main result, we highlight a stronger …

To protect intellectual property (IP), organizations use different kinds of mechanisms such as patent, secret or trade … secret (Hannah, 2005; 2007). Patent grants to the holder a temporary monopoly position including the right to sue for … in the industry and that the firm makes an effort to protect” (Fosfuri and Rønde, 2004: 46). Unlike patent relies on …

The optimal inflation rate is an outstanding issue in monetary theory and policy. Previous work attempting to … rationalize positive inflation targets chosen by central banks is subject to a major criticism, since its conclusions depend on … the assumption that only one currency is available to agents. This paper presents a model in which the inflation of the …

return on assets is determined by incentives eliciting voluntary debt repayment. I show that the inflation rate or, more …, money is used in equilibrium and the optimal inflation rate is positive. …

helpful to forecast inflation and industrial production. Keywords: International treasury yield curves, common and local …