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Cheap talk with correlated signals
Chand, A. K. S.; Currarini, Sergio; Ursino, Giovanni - 2013
We consider a game of information transmission, with one informed decision maker gathering information from one or more informed senders. Private information is (conditionally) correlated across players, and communication is cheap talk. For the one sender case, we show that correlation...
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Competition in signaling
Vaccari, Federico - 2022
I study a multi-sender signaling game between an uninformed decision maker and two senders with common private information and conflicting interests. Senders can misreport information at a cost that is tied to the size of the misrepresentation. The main results concern the amount of information...
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The Battle for Patent Rights in Plant Biotechnology: Evidence from Opposition
Schneider, Cédric - 2010
This paper describes and analyzes the occurrence and extent of oppositions initiated against plant biotechnology patents granted by the European Patent Office (EPO). The opposition mechanism is a legal procedure that allows any third party to challenge the validity of patents awarded by the EPO....
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Economic incongruities in the European patent system
Mejer, Malwina; Van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno - 2009
This paper argues that the consequences of the ‘fragmentation’ of the European patent system are more dramatic than the mere prohibitive costs of maintaining a patent in force in many jurisdictions. First, detailed analysis of judicial systems in several European countries and four case...
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The Plaintiff’s role in enforcing a court ruling : evidence from a labor court in Mexico
Kaplan, David Scott; Sadka, Joyce C. - 2011
We analyze the outcomes of 332 cases from a labor court in Mexico in which a judge awarded money to a plaintiff who claimed to have been fired by a firm without cause. The judgments were enforced in only 40% of the cases. A plaintiff may try to enforce a judgment by petitioning the court to...
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Improving taxation environment : attracting foreign direct investment
Singh, R. R. - 2016
With opening of the economy in 1991 and subsequent removal of regulatory and trade barriers, India became an attractive investment (Foreign Direct Investment-FDI) destination. A large number of multinationals have established operations in India to utilise the services of available skilled...
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Information channels in labor markets : on the resilience of referral hiring
Casella, Alessandra (contributor);  … - 2005
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Harmful signaling in matching markets
Kushnir, Alexey - 2010
Some labor markets have recently developed formal signalling mechanisms, e.g. the signalling for interviews in the job … signalling mechanism is harmful for this environment. Though signals transmit previously unavailable information, they also … facilitate information asymmetry that leads to coordination failures. As a result, the introduction of a signalling mechanism …
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Prizes and patents : using market signals to provide incentives for innovations
Chari, Varadarajan V.; Golosov, Michail Ju.; Tsyvinski, Aleh - 2009
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Sequential screening with privately known characteristics of cost distribution
Danau, Daniel; Vinella, Annalisa - 2015
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