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Choosing Intellectual Protection : Imitation, Patent Strength and Licensing
Encaoua, David; Lefouili, Yassine - 2021
-stage model in which choosing between patent and trade secrecy is affected by three parameters: the patent strength defined as the … small innovations are always patented. Furthermore, medium innovations are patented only when patent strength is … sufficiently high. Finally, we investigate a class of licensing agreements used to settle patent disputes between patent holders …
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Sin Licenses Revisited
Haavio, Markus - 2012
We analyze attempts to implement personalized regulation in the form of sin licenses (O'Donoghue and Rabin 2003, 2005, 2007) to correct the distortion in the consumption of a harmful good when consumers suffer from varying degrees of self-control problems. We take into account the possibility...
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Vertical Licensing, Input Pricing, and Entry
Bakaouka, Elpiniki - 2017
We explore the incentives of a vertically integrated incumbent firm to license the production technology of its core input to an external firm, transforming the licensee into its input supplier. We find that the incumbent opts for licensing even when licensing also transforms the licensee into...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Exports in Developing Countries
Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316444
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Optimal Cross-Licensing Arrangements : Collusion Versus Entry Deterrence
Choi, Jay Pil - 2018
deter entry with the threat of patent litigation. We show that a positive cross-licensing royalty rate, which would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912373
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Skilled Worker Migration and Trade : Inequality and Welfare
Bougheas, Spiros - 2011
We develop a two-sector, two-country model where trade is driven by technological differences. Each country is populated by large number of heterogeneous workers distinguished by their level of skills. Given that one country has a technological advantage in the skilled intensive good when we...
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Top Incomes, Rising Inequality, and Welfare
Lansing, Kevin J. - 2012
This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098333
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The Cost of Environmental Policy Under Induced Technical Change
Smulders, Sjak - 2013
Conventional wisdom argues that environmental policy is less costly if environmental policy induces the development of cleaner technologies. In contrast to this argument, we show that the cost of environmental policy (a reduction in emissions) may be larger with induced technical change than...
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Economic Retirement Age and Lifelong Learning - A Theoretical Model with Heterogeneous Labor, Biased Technical Change and International Sourcing
Gries, Thomas - 2017
The employability of an aging population in a world of continuous and biased technical change is top of the political agenda. Due to endogenous human capital depreciation the effective retirement age is often below statutory retirement age resulting in permanent non-employability of older...
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Green Technology Adoption and the Business Cycle
Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - 2017
We analyze the adoption of green technology in a dynamic economy affected by random shocks where demand spillovers are the main driver of technological improvements. Firms' beliefs and consumers' anticipations drive the path of the economy. We derive the optimal policy of investment subsidy and...
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