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Berne, Michel; Pogorel, Gérard - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 1, pp. 33-40

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A new approach to measuring competition in the loan markets of the euro area

van Leuvensteijn, Michiel; Bikker, Jacob A.; van … - 2007

This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks …

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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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Bank Regulation in the United States

Barth, James R.; Phumiwasana, Triphon; Lu, Wenling - In: CESifo DICE Report 06 (2008) 3, pp. 3-8

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International sourcing, product complexity and intellectual property rights

Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - 2011

In this paper, we propose the technological complexity of a product and the level of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) protection to be the co-determinants of the mode through which multinational firms purchase their goods. We study the choice between intra-firm trade and outsourcing given...

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To Be Financed or Not … - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing

Haeussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...

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Intellectual Property Rights: Talking Points for RP-US FTA Negotiations

Tantuico, Delia S.; Zshornack, Errol Wilfred - 2006

Intellectual property rights--copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and related rights--have become increasingly important with the advent of increased international trade, global and knowledge-based economy and fast developing technology. A strong intellectual property rights regime...

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Intellectual Property Protection Mechanisms in Research Partnerships

Hertzfeld, Henry R.; Link, Albert N.; Vonortas, Nicholas S. - 2004

A set of U.S.-based companies is investigated regarding the effectiveness of intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) in the formation of research partnerships. Patents are the most frequently used IPPM to protect both background and foreground knowledge in partnerships. Other IPPMs...

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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Entry and competition in freight transport: the case of a prospective transalpine rail link between France and Italy

Prady, Delphine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2010

We analyze the expected effects of building a rail tunnel between Lyon and Turin on i) the market shares of the established and the new suppliers, and ii) consumer surplus. The prospective project consists of a 53km rail tunnel providing freight shippers with a new alpine path. We calibrate an...

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