Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 6,568
Cover Image
Empirical studies on the private value of Finnish patents
Grönqvist, Charlotta - 2009
Tiivistelmä 4 Acknowledgements 5 Introduction 9 Essay 1: The private value of patents by patent characteristics: evidence from Finland 43 Essay 2: Why does the private patent value differ by assignee? 61 Essay 3: Do the assignee's characteristics affect the private value of patents? 97 Essay 4:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148905
Cover Image
Standard essential patents: Who is really holding up (and when)?
Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen; Neven, Damien - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of injunctions on royalty negotiations for standard essential patents. We develop a model in which courts grant injunctions only when they have sufficient evidence that the prospective licensee is unwilling, in line with the way we understand Courts to operate in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316782
Cover Image
Knowledge diffusion and knowledge transfer: two sides of the medal
Klarl, Torben - 2009
Understanding the way in which knowledge is technically produced and transferred, and how its diffusion path can be characterized is of fundamental importance for the performance of an economy. Although this fact seems to be plausible ex ante, the relevant literature so far has paid less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299841
Cover Image
Catching-up and falling behind: knowledge spillover from American to German machine tool makers
Richter, Ralf; Streb, Jochen - 2009
In our days, German machine tool makers accuse their Chinese competitors of violating patent rights and illegally imitating German technology. A century ago, however, German machine tool makers used exactly the same methods to imitate American technology. To understand the dynamics of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299540
Cover Image
Parting with "blue monday": Preferences in home production and consumer responses to innovations
Witt, Ulrich; Woersdorfer, Julia Sophie - 2011
How can economic theory explain the reasons why consumers adopt innovations? Using the example of innovations in washing machines two approaches are compared. The first focuses in the manner of household production theory on changes in constraints without specifying preferences, leading to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286759
Cover Image
Self-employment and labor market risks
Audoly, Richard - 2024
I study the labor market risks associated with being self-employed. I document that the self-employed are subject to larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581780
Cover Image
Mining conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa: Actors and repertoires of contention
Engels, Bettina - 2016
of engaging in conflict at their disposal, and thus rely on different repertoires of contention when engaging in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019475
Cover Image
A new approach to solving production-appropriation games with many heterogeneous players
Cornes, Richard; Hartley, Roger; Tamura, Yuji - 2010
We set out a model of production and appropriation involving many players, who differ with respect to both resource endowments and productivities. We write down the model in a novel way that permits our analysis to avoid the proliferation of dimensions associated with the best response function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270524
Cover Image
Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272662
Cover Image
Ethnic fragmentation, conflict, displaced persons and human trafficking: An empirical analysis
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2010
fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274570