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Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation : Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program
Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2018
essential to the functioning of the patent system, legal scholars have expressed considerable skepticism about its value in … practice. To adjudicate this issue, we examine the expansion of the USPTO Patent and Trademark Depository Library system … between 1975 to 1997. Whereas the exclusion rights associated with patents are national in scope, the opening of these patent …
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Expanding Patients' Property Rights In Their Medical Records
Baker, Laurence C. - 2014
Although doctors and hospitals own their patients' medical records, state and federal laws require that they provide patients with a copy at "reasonable cost." We examine the effects of state laws that cap the fees that doctors and hospitals are allowed to charge patients for a copy of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458100
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Does Transparency Lead to Pay Compression?
Mas, Alexandre - 2014
This paper asks whether pay disclosure in the public sector changes wage setting at the top of the public sector distribution. I examine a 2010 California mandate that required municipal salaries to be posted online. Among top managers, disclosure led to approximately 7 percent average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458107
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Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector
Chava, Sudheer; Oettl, Alexander; Singh, Manpreet; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using an administrative payroll dataset for 2.6 million retail workers, we find that the staggered rollout of a major e-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages of hourly workers, especially part-time...
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What is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent “Lottery”
Farre-Mensa, Joan - 2017
.S. Patent Office since 2001, we find that startups that win the patent "lottery" by drawing lenient examiners have, on average …, 55% higher employment growth and 80% higher sales growth five years later. Patent winners also pursue more, and higher … quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup's subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating …
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Competition and Innovation : An Inverted U Relationship
Aghion, Philippe - 2002
This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A growth model is developed in which competition may increase the incremental profit from innovating; on the other hand, competition may also reduce innovation incentives for laggards. There are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469440
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Technological Leadership (de)Concentration : Causes in ICTE
Ozcan, Yasin - 2016
Using patents as indicators of inventive activity, this article characterizes the concentration of origins of invention from 1976 to 2010, and how these changed over time. The analysis finds pervasive deconcentration in virtually every area related to ICT, but it can explain only a small part of...
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The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations : Within- and Between- Patent Competition in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2002
A patent only protects an innovator from others producing the same product, but it does not protect him from others … within-patent competition, which results from production of the same product, and betweenpatent competition, which results … effects of intellectual property regulations on within -patent competition by showing how protecting innovative returns from …
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Author Country of Origin and Attention on Open Science Platforms : Evidence from COVID-19 Preprints
Fry, Caroline; MacGarvie, Megan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Online platforms such as preprint servers have become an important way to disseminate new scientific knowledge prior to peer review. However, little is known about how attention to preprints may vary across authors from different countries of origin, particularly relative to evaluation in...
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The First Sale Doctrine and the Digital Challenge to Public Libraries
Reimers, Imke C.; Waldfogel, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Libraries have traditionally provided free communal access to books, facilitated by the first sale doctrine's (FSD) guarantee that libraries may purchase physical books at consumer prices. Increasingly restrictive ebook access terms may imperil libraries, and we compare the welfare cost of...
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