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Cutting too close? Design protection and innovation in fashion goods
Hackett, Petal Jean - 2012
Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
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It is a Theft But Not a Crime
Balestrino, Alessandro - 2021
Why do people who normally refrain from committing illegalities become digital pirates? In this paper we use a theoretical model of digital piracy combined with a game-theoretic mechanism of social norm formation to argue that no social stigma is attached to digital piracy because the latter has...
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Copyright Protection in the Digital Single Market
Stähler, Frank; Stähler, Leander - 2022
This paper scrutinizes the effects of the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market on platform competition in media markets. Platforms that are Online Content-Sharing Service Providers must have a license agreement with collective management organizations that control the...
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Digital piracy: Theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2010
This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...
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Creative destruction and productive preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2013
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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Intellectual property rights, technology transfer and exports in developing countries
Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - 2008
We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
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Would global patent protection be too weak without international coordination?
Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Yan, Isabel K.-M. - 2011
This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free … induce individual countries to select patent strengths that are weaker than is optimal from a global perspective. The paper … considerations in setting patent policies. The first two features (trade barriers interacting with firm heterogeneity) tend to reduce …
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Tax Losses and Ex-Ante Offshore Transfer of Intellectual Property
Sharma, Rishi; Slemrod, Joel; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2021
We develop a positive model of multinational firm behavior and analyze a firm’s incentive to transfer an intellectual property (IP) right of uncertain value offshore ex ante, i.e. before its success or failure is realized. With an asymmetric treatment of losses in the home country, the...
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Knowledge Remittances : Does Emigration Foster Innovation?
Fackler, Thomas - 2019
contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous … variation to establish causality. By analysing patent citation data, we further provide evidence that these positive effects are …
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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Bahar, Dany - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
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