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The value of disclosing IPR to open standard setting organizations
Hussinger, Katrin; Schwiebacher, Franz - 2013
information and communication technologies. Open standards are developed non-discriminatorily and licensed to anybody at … reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Little is known about the value of IP contributions to open standards for technology …. The loss of exclusivity to IPR appears to be outweighed by the expected benefits from open standards. Patents appear to …
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The value of disclosing IPR to open standard setting organizations
Hussinger, Katrin; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
information and communication technologies. Open standards are developed non-discriminatorily and licensed to anybody at … reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Little is known about the value of IP contributions to open standards for technology …. The loss of exclusivity to IPR appears to be outweighed by the expected benefits from open standards. Patents appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957733
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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching
Schwager, Robert - 2008
A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298081
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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching
Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097767
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Network Externalities and Interconnection Incentives
Vanberg, Margit A. - 2005
The majority of industrial organizations literature on network externalities looks at firm behavior under given market characteristics. The present paper instead asks the question whether the presence of network externalities can change market characteristics, specifically, whether an initially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297492
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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
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Implications of Network Convergence on Local Access Regulation in the U.S. and the EU
Vanberg, Margit A. - 2007
This paper provides an overview of telecommunications regulation in the U.S. and in Europe. For each region the history of telecommunications regulations as well as the current regulatory regime is portrayed. The focus of this overview is on the question of how unbundling regulations in the...
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Who should pay for certification?
Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2011
Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...
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Consumer search and firm strategy with multi-attribute products
Gambato, Jacopo - 2024
I analyze a model of directed search in which a consumer inspects a finite number of products sharing attributes with each others. The consumer discovers her valuation for the attributes of the inspected products and adapts her search strategy based on what she has learned. The consumer...
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When private information settles the bill: Money and privacy in Google's market for smartphone applications
Kummer, Michael E.; Schulte, Patrick - 2016
We shed light on a money-for-privacy trade-off in the market for smartphone applications ("apps"). Developers offer their apps cheaper in return for greater access to personal information, and consumers choose between lower prices and more privacy. We provide evidence for this pattern using data...
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