This paper addresses the ongoing debate over disclosing information about software vulnerabilities through an open forum. Using a game-theoretic approach, we show that full pbulic disclosure may be an equilibrium strategy in a game played by rational loss-minimizing agents. We provide conditions...

Innovation is a scarce resource--in order for innovation to occur, a country must forgo something else. In the international trade literature, the sacrifice is usually in terms of inputs that could have been used in production. However, to imply that innovation depends on productive resources...

This dissertation explores the influences of minimum quality standards and of the threat of entry in a vertical product differentiation model. In the first chapter, I study the influence of minimum quality standards in a partial-equilibrium model of vertical product differentiation and trade in...

One of the subjects under discussion at the Uruguay Round for the last 4 years has been the introduction of strengthened protection of intellectual property rights (IPR's) in underdeveloped countries. This issue has polarized countries into the rich, Northern countries who undertake R&D and...

This work contains two separate essays. The first essay, "International Patent Length Setting with Shelving Behavior" looks at government choices in patent lengths when invention of a basic technology is distinguished from invention of applications of that technology. The choice of patent length...