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Goldilocks and the licensing firm:Choosing a partner when rivals are heterogeneous
Creane, Anthony; Konishi, Hideo - Boston College / Department of Economics - 2009
We consider how the amount of the technology transferred and the characteristics of the partneraffect licensing. We find that a partial technology transfer can be the joint-profit minimizingtransfer, though under weakly concave demand, a complete transfer always increases joint profitif there...
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Competition Issues in the Seed Industry and the Role of Intellectual Property
Moschini, GianCarlo - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010
patents naturally creates market power positions and raisesdifficult and unresolved competition issues in an antitrust context.[...] …
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Pool of Basic Patents and Follow-up Innovations
Langinier, Corinne - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006
Basic innovations are often fundamental to the development of applications that maybe developed by other innovators. In this setting, we investigate whether patent pools canrectify the lack of incentives for developers to invest in applications. Following Green andScotchmer (1995), we also...
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Can Labor Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India
Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics and Political Science
This paper investigates whether the industrial relations climate inIndian states has affected the pattern of manufacturing growthin the period 1958-92. We show that states which ammendedthe Industrial Disputes Act in a pro-worker direction experiencedlowered output, employment, investment and...
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Verantwortung und das Problem der Kuppelproduktion. Reflexionen über die Grundlagen der Umweltpolitik
Petersen, Thomas; Faber, Malte - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2004
Modern environmental problems are a consequence of human action. They not only pose thepredicament of who is to be held responsible; but exhibit such a complexity, that our ability totake responsibility for interventions into nature at all, is drawn into doubt. And what preciselydoes it mean, to...
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Responsibility and Joint Production
Petersen, Thomas; Faber, Malte - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2004
In this paper, we discuss the relationship between responsibility and joint production.Responsibility mirrors our ability to act freely. We can act freely only if we can assumeresponsibility for our actions and their consequences; the limits of our responsibility aretherefore also the limits of...
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Verantwortung,Kuppelproduktion und Wissen
Petersen, Thomas; Faber, Malte - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2003
In diesem Aufsatz untersuchen wir die Beziehung von Verantwortung und Kuppelproduktion.Unsere Verantwortung reflektiert unsere Fähigkeit, frei zu handeln. Wir können nur freihandeln, insofern wir für unsere Handlungen und ihre Folgen Verantwortung übernehmen; dieGrenzen unserer Verantwortung...
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KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION UNDER PATENTASYMMETRIC FIRMS
Mukherjee, Arijit; Uday Bhanu Sinha - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics; … - 2005
We show that if patent protection and trade secrecy generate asymmetricmarket structure, an innovator may prefer patent protection than trade secrecy even ifthe diffusion probability is higher under the former but it increases marketconcentration by preventing some imitators...
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COST PADDING IN REGULATED MONOPOLIES
Bougheas, Spiros; Worrall, Tim - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics; … - 2001
In this paper we consider a regulated monopoly that can pad its costs to increaseits cost reimbursement. Even while padding is ineácient the optimal incentivescheme tolerates some padding of costs to reduce the information rents paid tolow cost types. It is shown that high cost ßrms pad costs...
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Das Internet: New Economy und Netzwerkeffekte
Ahlert, Dieter; Becker, Jörg; Ehlers, Lars H.; Hören, … - 2000
Das Internet und die multimedialen Möglichkeiten des World Wide Web habendazu geführt, dass eine neue Industrie um die … Microsoft übersehen hatte, sollten von anderen Unternehmenernst genommen werden, zumal in Konsumgüterindustrie und -handelkaum … Kundenund das Prozess-Know-how einen wichtigen Wissensfundus bilden, der auch inder Internet-Ära genutzt werden kann. Damit …
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