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Welfare effects of endogenous copyright enforcement : the case of digital goods

Pasche, Markus - 2014

In case of digital goods such like music, intellectual property rights are typically not exerted by the creators (artists) but by intermediaries. Their profits, and therefore also the income of the artists, are endangered by copyright infringements (piracy). It is well known from static welfare...

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Entrepreneurs´ acceptance of formal institutions : a cross-country analysis

Freytag, Andreas; Noseleit, Florian - 2009

Institutional settings and the resulting incentive structures are crucial for economic development. The type of entrepreneurial activity and the entrepreneurial effort are especially dependent on underlying incentive structures. We argue that institutions with better incentive structures for...

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To securitize or to price credit risk?

McGowan, Danny; Nguyen, Huyen - 2020

We evaluate if lenders price or securitize mortgages to mitigate credit risk. Exploiting exogenous variation in regional credit risk created by differences in foreclosure law along US state borders, we find that financial institutions respond to the law in heterogeneous ways. In the agency...

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On regional innovator networks as hubs for innovative ventures

Cantner, Uwe; Wolf, Tina - 2016

the regional innovator network, promoting region-specific knowledge spillovers. Two data bases are applied. First, patent …

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Micro fluidity and macro stability in inventor networks

Fritsch, Michael; Kudic, Muhamed - 2019

From a macro perspective, inventor networks are characterized by rather stable structures. However, the high levels of fluidity of inventors and their ties found in reality contradicts this macro pattern. In order to explain these contradicting patterns, we zoom in on the intermediate group...

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A shot in the dark? : policy influence on cluster networks

Graf, Holger; Brökel, Tom - 2019

example of the BioRegio contest, we explore cluster policy eﬀects on local patent co-application and co-invention networks …

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Knowledge recombination along the technology life cycle

Kalthaus, Martin - 2016

inventors who contribute to the knowledge base. Using patent data for wind power and photovoltaics, the technological … contribution of an invention to the knowledge base is measured by the patent's forward citation. The inventors of these patents are … of the forward citation the patent receives, is correlated with his previous inventive activity. Results indicate that …

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Is innovation (increasingly) concentrated in large cities? : an international comparison

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020

We investigate the geographic concentration of patenting in large cities using a sample of 14 developed countries. There is wide dispersion of the share of patented inventions in large metropolitan areas. South Korea and the US are two extreme outliers where patenting is highly concentrated in...

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Does successful innovation require large urban areas? : Germany as a counterexample

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020

Popular theories claim that innovation activities should be located in large cities because of more favorable environmental conditions that are absent in smaller cities or remote and rural areas. Germany provides a clear counterexample to such theories. We argue that a main force behind the...

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Regional innovator networks : a review and an application with R

Graf, Holger - 2017

The article serves as an introduction to the empirical analysis of innovation or knowledge networks based on patent … comparative regional network study based on the publicly available OECD patent databases. …

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