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Why Are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts
Abbing, Hans - 2008
Most artists earn very little. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of aspiring young artists. Do they give to the arts … is ineffective: subsidies only increase the artists' poverty. The economy of the arts is exceptional. Although the arts …. People believe that artists are selflessly dedicated to art, that price does not reflect quality, and that the arts are free …
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Digital piracy: Theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2010
This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...
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Endogenous enforcement of intellectual property, North-South trade, and growth
Schäfer, Andreas; Schneider, Maik T. - 2011
While most countries have harmonized intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, the dispute about the optimal level of IPR-enforcement remains. This paper develops an endogenous growth framework with two open economies satisfying the classical North-South assumptions to study (a)...
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Lost horizons: The noncooperative management of an evolutionary biological system
Goeschl, Timo; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2002
This paper studies the interaction between two dynamic domains, (1) an evolutionary biological system ('the environment') whose behaviour determines the availability of a resource stock, and (2) an industry where access to the resource stock is determined by the outcome of a patent race. The...
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Technology and intellectual property: A taxonomy of contemporary markets for knowledge and their implications for development
Cimoli, Mario; Primi, Annalisa - 2008
development theory. Through the lenses of the paradigm based theory of innovation, the authors first recognize that technological …
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Science vs. profit in research: Lessons from the human genome project
Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - 2001
This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...
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Intellectual property rights, technology transfer and exports in developing countries
Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - 2008
We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
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Bidding for brains: Intellectual property rights and the international migration of knowledge workers
McAusland, Carol; Kuhn, Peter - 2010
We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...
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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship
Ács, Zoltán J.; Sanders, Mark - 2008
We develop a model in which stronger protection of intellectual property rights has an inverted U-shaped effect on innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial exploration that would otherwise accrue to the...
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