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R&D Sourcing, Joint Ventures and Innovation : A Multiple Indicators Approach
Adams, James D.; Marcu, Mircea - 2021
This paper reexamines the limits of the firm in Research and Development (R&D). Using evidence drawn from industrial laboratories we study the causes and effects of R&D sourcing. We begin with the causes of sourcing, finding that Research Joint Ventures (RJVs), the option to purchase and...
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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Park, Yooki - 2008
As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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Dynamic Supplier Contracts under Asymmetric Inventory Information
Zhang, Hao; Nagarajan, Mahesh; Sosic, Greys - 2010
In this paper, we examine a supply chain in which a single supplier sells to a downstream newsvendor-type retailer. We make two assumptions that enrich this simple and well-understood model. First, we consider a multi-period model, in which the sequence of events is as follows. In a period, t,...
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Growth in the Shadow of Expropriation
Aguiar, Mark - 2010
contracting friction is a lack of commitment regarding foreign debt and expropriation. We show that the political economy …
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The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics : Evidence from Indonesia
Bazzi, Samuel - 2018
expropriation by the state. Regions facing a greater threat of expropriation exhibit more prevalent waqf land and Islamic …
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Religious Competition and Reallocation : The Political Economy of Secularization in the Protestant Reformation
Cantoni, Davide - 2017
Using novel microdata, we document an unintended, first-order consequence of the Protestant Reformation: a massive reallocation of resources from religious to secular purposes. To understand this process, we propose a conceptual framework in which the introduction of religious competition shifts...
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Optimal Resource Extraction Contracts Under Threat of Expropriation
Engel, Eduardo M. R. A. - 2010
which faces price uncertainty. In states where profits are high, there is a likelihood of expropriation, which generates a … with high probability of expropriation. The contract can be implemented via a competitive auction with reasonable …
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Are Resettled Oustees from the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project Better Off Today than Their Former Neighbors Who Were Not Ousted?
Aiyar, Swaminathan - 2018
The Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat is arguably the most controversial dam ever built in India, with over a 100,000 displaced people. Most ousted families in Gujarat were resettled in the late 1980s and early 1990s. All oustees were tribals—a term used in India to cover a list of tribes viewed...
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A Theory of Expropriation and Deviations from Perfect Capital Mobility
Eaton, Jonathan; Gersovitz, Mark - 2021
This paper develops a theory of capital movements in the presence of potential expropriation. The threat of … expropriation is derived from utility maximizing behavior by host countries. Potential investors, anticipating this behavior, modify … their investment plans to avoid expropriation. When- ever the host country faces competitive foreign investors expropriation …
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On the Ends of the State : Stationary Bandits and the Time Horizon in Eastern Congo
Henn, Soeren; Mugaruka, Christian; Ortiz, Miguel; … - 2022
We show that armed actors refrain from using their power to arbitrarily steal from an economy if, and only if, the armed actors' property rights over stealing from that economy are secure. By 2009, armed actors taxed, administered, and protected various villages in Democratic Republic of the...
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