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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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A Model of Patent Trolls

Choi, Jay Pil - 2015

This paper develops a model of patent trolls to understand various litigation strategies employed by nonpracticing entities (NPE). We show that when a NPE faces multiple potential infringers who use related technologies, it can gain a credible threat to litigate even when it has no such...

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Dynamic Protection of Innovations Through Patents and Trade Secrets

Belleflamme, Paul; Bloch, Francis - 2021

This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of … imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize … fraction of the innovation once. We also study the optimal dynamic patenting policy in a soft novelty regime, when the …

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Rent Seeking : The Social Cost of Contestable Benefits

Hillman, Arye L. - 2017

A major contribution of the public-choice school is the recognition by Gordon Tullock that contestable rents give rise to social losses because of unproductive resource use. Contestable rents usually are politically assigned privileges. Contestable rents can also be found outside of government...

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Ex Post Information Rents in Sequential Screening

Krahmer, Daniel - 2014

We study ex post information rents in sequential screening models where the agent receives private ex ante and ex post information. The principal has to pay ex post information rents for preventing the agent to coordinate lies about his ex ante and ex post information. When the agent's ex ante...

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Resource Rents, Power, and Political Stability

Bjorvatn, Kjetil - 2014

We study the association between resource rents and political stability, highlighting the importance of the distribution of political power as a mediating factor. We present a simple theoretical model showing that increased rents are likely to be positively associated with the stability of a...

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Feldstein Meets George : Land Rent Taxation and Socially Optimal Allocation in Economies with Environmental Externality

Dao, Thang Nguyen - 2018

We consider an overlapping generations (OLG) economy with land as a fixed factor of production and an environmental externality on production in which tax revenue from land rent and/or from other schemes such as labor income, capital income, and production taxation can be used for environmental...

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Negotiating to Avoid 'Gradual' Versus 'Dangerous' Climate Change : An Experimental Test of Two Prisoners' Dilemmas

Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2021

According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize "greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system." The Framework Convention thus...

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More than Thirty Years of Ultimatum Bargaining Experiments : Motives, Variations, and a Survey of the Recent Literature

Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin - 2021

Take-it or leave-it offers are probably as old as mankind. Our objective here is, first, to provide a, probably subjectively-colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game experiment, its motivation and the immediate responses. Second, we discuss important extensions of the standard...

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The Fatter the Tail, the Fatter the Climate Agreement - Simulating the Influence of Fat Tails in Climate Change Damages on the Success of International Climate Negotiations

Dekker, Thijs; Dellink, Rob; Ketterer, Janina - 2021

International climate negotiations take place in a setting where uncertainties regarding the impacts of climate change …

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