Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for … determinants of patent registration across a large sample of countries. Importantly, we disentangle the effects of corporate income … taxation from the tax advantage of patent boxes. We also exploit a new and original dataset on patent box features such as the …

This paper presents a study of backward and forward patent citations in patents granted to firms and institutions in … the Netherlands by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The study establishes different patterns of … patent citation in recent Dutch patents belonging to different industrial classes. We run our model in the set of backward …

We analyse how a patent-holding pharmaceutical firm may strategically use advertising of existing drugs to affect R … advertising, we show that such overinvestment incentives are always present, and that more generous patent protection implies that … a larger share of the patent rent is spent on marketing, relative to R&D …

We introduce archetypal analysis as a tool to describe and categorize scientists. This approach identifies typical … allocated to each scientists under investigation. In our application, we use a sample of seven bibliometric indicators for 29 …

We introduce archetypal analysis as a tool to describe and categorize scientists. This approach identifies typical … allocated to each scientists under investigation. In our application, we use a sample of seven bibliometric indicators for 29 …

-stage model in which choosing between patent and trade secrecy is affected by three parameters : the patent strength defined as … whereas 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 …

lower than the social planner's benchmark, which suggests a role for patent policy. We focus on a “non-infringing inventive … instrument in the form of patent length policy …

This paper develops a theory of patent portfolios in which firms accumulate an enormous amount of related patents in … infringe on other firms' patent portfolios. We investigate how litigation incentives for the holders of patent portfolios … impact the incentives to introduce new products and draw welfare implications. We also consider a patent portfolio …